Upcoming RPI Impact Games for South Alabama Men's Basketball

2026 South Alabama Jaguars 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	2031
25	Colorado	831
50	Florida	451
75	Troy	174
82	Utah Valley	113
83	Quinnipiac	109
84	Arkansas	103
85	New Orleans	97
86	Boise State	94
87	Wyoming	91
88	Pacific	88
89	Mercer	88
90	Penn State	78
91	William & Mary	76
92	Stephen F. Austin	61
93	Northern Colorado	50
94	Hofstra	37
95	Rhode Island	28
96	Wake Forest	25
97	Villanova	25
98	Virginia	8
99	Northern Iowa	4
100	Marshall	1
101	South Alabama	-
102	Pittsburgh	-5
103	Ohio State	-6
104	Winthrop	-8
105	Notre Dame	-10
106	Central Connecticut	-21
107	Portland State	-42
108	Georgia	-43
109	George Washington	-54
110	Austin Peay	-60
111	UC Santa Barbara	-65
112	Robert Morris	-71
113	Drake	-76
114	Saint Thomas	-85
115	Providence	-91
116	Colgate	-100
117	Vermont	-108
118	Cornell	-111
119	Kent State	-121
120	Long Island	-128
125	Miami (FL)	-186
150	Boston University	-356
175	SIUE	-525
200	Syracuse	-651
225	Sacramento State	-857
250	UMBC	-1003
275	UIC	-1120
300	Eastern Illinois	-1334
325	Loyola-Maryland	-1589
350	Mississippi Valley State	-2104
357	Delaware State	-2265

Direct Impact Games

	Final		1	2	T
		South Alabama (6-1, 0-0 Sun Belt)	44	38	82
		UTSA (2-4, 0-0 American)	31	27	58

South Alabama Wins:
South Alabama Loses:

-12 RPI Points
-216 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	2nd Half - 18:47		1	2	T
		Coppin State (1-7, 0-0 MEAC)	39	2	41
		Loyola-Maryland (1-5, 0-0 Patriot League)	41	6	47

Coppin State Wins:
Coppin State Loses:

69.4 RPI Points
-9.9 RPI Points