Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Howard Women's Basketball

2026 Howard Bison 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	UCLA	1723
25	Texas Tech	758
50	Murray State	451
75	Santa Clara	234
89	Indiana	152
90	Brown	147
91	Holy Cross	135
92	Saint John's	116
93	Maine	98
94	Army	92
95	UC Irvine	87
96	Penn	86
97	Marquette	81
98	Missouri	78
99	Missouri State	76
100	Quinnipiac	53
101	California Baptist	48
102	Creighton	43
103	California	42
104	UC San Diego	31
105	Miami (FL)	17
106	Youngstown State	11
107	Auburn	2
108	Howard	-
109	Binghamton	0
110	UTSA	-6
111	High Point	-9
112	Belmont	-12
113	Central Arkansas	-16
114	Boise State	-17
115	Southern Indiana	-37
116	UC Davis	-38
117	Abilene Christian	-44
118	Navy	-51
119	Purdue	-64
120	Loyola-Marymount	-66
121	Penn State	-68
122	Eastern Kentucky	-74
123	Hawaii	-84
124	East Carolina	-85
125	Fairleigh Dickinson	-86
126	Wisconsin	-97
127	Stephen F. Austin	-98
150	New Mexico	-241
175	ULM	-369
200	Maryland Eastern Shore	-526
225	Wake Forest	-700
250	UTA	-823
275	Memphis	-963
300	New Mexico State	-1138
325	Utah Tech	-1370
350	Portland State	-1569
357	Valparaiso	-1931

Direct Impact Games

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Howard (26-8, 13-1 MEAC)	15	4	17	18	54
		12 Ohio State (27-7, 13-5 Big Ten)	20	23	19	13	75

Howard Wins:
Howard Loses:

77 RPI Points
20 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Loyola-Chicago (15-17, 9-9 Atlantic 10)	12	13	15	18	58
		Norfolk State (14-15, 11-3 MEAC)	15	13	12	14	54

Norfolk State Wins:
Norfolk State Loses:

7.6 RPI Points
-7.1 RPI Points

	End of 3rd Qtr		1	2	3	4	T
		Syracuse (23-8, 12-6 ACC)	11	30	13		54
		Iowa State (22-9, 10-8 Big 12)	14	12	16		42

Syracuse Wins:
Syracuse Loses:

1.2 RPI Points
-3.4 RPI Points

	Final/1OT		1	2	3	4	OT	T
		Virginia (21-11, 11-7 ACC)	24	18	14	15	11	82
		24 Georgia (22-10, 8-8 SEC)	16	27	16	12	2	73

Virginia Wins:
Virginia Loses:

1.5 RPI Points
-2.9 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Fairfield (28-5, 19-1 MAAC)	12	12	19	17	60
		22 Notre Dame (23-10, 12-6 ACC)	17	19	26	17	79

Fairfield Wins:
Fairfield Loses:

0.7 RPI Points
-3.7 RPI Points