Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Notre Dame Men's Basketball

2026 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Impact Games

Impact Games are games that can move a team up or down the RPI Ladder (increase or decrease RPI Rank).

Direct Impact Games are head-to-head matchups for the team.

Indirect Impact Games are games that include a previous opponent of the team and impact the team's SOS component of RPI.

Late in the season, Indirect Impact Games may only have a small impact on a team's RPI Rank.

Normally, a win will increase a team's RPI Rank and a loss will decrease it, but sometimes when playing a really strong opponent a win or a loss will increase RPI Rank and when playing a much weaker opponent a win or a loss will decrease RPI Rank.

RPI Points are approximate.

RPI Ladder

RPI	Team	RPI Pts Needed
1	Duke	1546
25	Villanova	804
50	Miami (FL)	482
75	Oklahoma State	210
85	Wake Forest	133
86	Illinois State	123
87	Colorado State	113
88	Murray State	109
89	West Virginia	104
90	Troy	101
91	Marshall	89
92	UC Irvine	87
93	Davidson	77
94	Bradley	76
95	Arkansas State	73
96	Northern Iowa	73
97	Syracuse	72
98	Charleston	70
99	Hawaii	59
100	George Washington	29
101	Creighton	13
102	North Dakota State	8
103	William & Mary	1
104	Notre Dame	-
105	Western Kentucky	-5
106	Providence	-7
107	Toledo	-9
108	Northwestern	-13
109	UC San Diego	-19
110	Washington	-26
111	Duquesne	-28
112	Saint Thomas	-34
113	Penn	-35
114	Butler	-43
115	Navy	-46
116	FAU	-47
117	Utah Tech	-51
118	Tulane	-53
119	Austin Peay	-53
120	Wyoming	-54
121	Seattle University	-75
122	Tennessee State	-77
123	LSU	-82
125	Wright State	-88
150	Mississippi State	-174
175	Kansas State	-281
200	Southern Miss	-379
225	Montana	-522
250	Sacred Heart	-686
275	UC Riverside	-847
300	Loyola-Chicago	-947
325	Long Beach State	-1102
350	New Hampshire	-1355
357	Southern Indiana	-1528

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Final		1	2	T
		Southern Illinois (15-15, 10-10 Missouri Valley)	38	43	81
		Evansville (5-24, 3-17 Missouri Valley)	27	40	67

Evansville Wins:
Evansville Loses:

4.8 RPI Points
-1.0 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	T
		8 Purdue (22-7, 12-6 Big Ten)	31	43	74
		Ohio State (18-11, 10-8 Big Ten)	36	46	82

Ohio State Wins:
Ohio State Loses:

2.2 RPI Points
-3.6 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	T
		Rutgers (12-17, 5-13 Big Ten)	39	30	69
		Maryland (11-18, 4-14 Big Ten)	20	45	65

Rutgers Wins:
Rutgers Loses:

3.4 RPI Points
-2.4 RPI Points