Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Ohio State Men's Basketball

2026 Ohio State Buckeyes 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	Michigan	1469
25	Villanova	478
42	Saint Louis	181
43	Middle Tennessee	177
44	Colorado	162
45	Florida	156
46	Arkansas	142
47	Utah Valley	139
48	Kansas State	127
49	George Mason	110
50	McNeese	90
51	Stanford	89
52	Louisville	84
53	Butler	83
54	Akron	69
55	California	61
56	FAU	59
57	Tennessee	58
58	Arkansas State	56
59	Georgia	18
60	Towson	8
61	Ohio State	-
62	Arizona State	-5
63	William & Mary	-27
64	Oklahoma State	-35
65	UCLA	-50
66	Virginia	-62
67	New Mexico State	-64
68	Troy	-70
69	Colorado State	-83
70	Northern Iowa	-84
71	Belmont	-106
72	Indiana	-108
73	Washington	-112
74	Buffalo	-124
75	Creighton	-142
76	VCU	-142
77	Illinois State	-147
78	Columbia	-150
79	South Florida	-153
80	Notre Dame	-158
100	Oregon	-309
125	FIU	-486
150	San Francisco	-649
175	Miami (OH)	-819
200	Wofford	-899
225	Tennessee Tech	-1058
250	Alabama A&M	-1202
275	Rice	-1343
300	Southeastern Louisiana	-1512
325	Cal State Bakersfield	-1767
350	Western Illinois	-2097
357	Morgan State	-2339

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	8:00 PM		1	2	T
		IU Indianapolis (2-9, 0-3 Horizon League)			0
		Grand Canyon (7-4, 1-0 Mountain West)			0

IU Indianapolis Wins:
IU Indianapolis Loses:

31.0 RPI Points
-6.9 RPI Points

	8:00 PM		1	2	T
		Missouri (10-2, 0-0 SEC)			0
		18 Illinois (8-3, 1-1 Big Ten)			0

Illinois Wins:
Illinois Loses:

10.3 RPI Points
-27.5 RPI Points

	7:00 PM		1	2	T
		Mississippi Valley State (0-11, 0-0 SWAC)			0
		West Virginia (8-4, 0-0 Big 12)			0

West Virginia Wins:
West Virginia Loses:

11.7 RPI Points
-23.3 RPI Points

	8:00 PM		1	2	T
		East Carolina (4-7, 0-0 American)			0
		12 North Carolina (11-1, 0-0 ACC)			0

North Carolina Wins:
North Carolina Loses:

2.9 RPI Points
-32.1 RPI Points