Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Minnesota Women's Basketball

2026 Minnesota Golden Gophers 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	949
5	Iowa	671
6	Vanderbilt	468
7	Duke	445
8	Michigan	397
9	TCU	372
10	Princeton	297
11	LSU	271
12	West Virginia	259
13	Ohio State	214
14	Baylor	183
15	Alabama	119
16	Oklahoma	110
17	North Carolina	96
18	Louisville	74
19	Rhode Island	65
20	Richmond	58
21	Ole Miss	54
22	Kentucky	53
23	Villanova	47
24	Minnesota	-
25	Texas Tech	-16
26	Notre Dame	-25
27	Washington	-79
28	Colorado	-87
29	Maryland	-92
30	Michigan State	-96
31	Tennessee	-110
32	North Carolina State	-118
33	Arizona State	-135
34	Rice	-180
35	George Mason	-189
36	Oregon	-205
37	South Dakota State	-219
38	USC	-221
39	Georgia Southern	-256
40	James Madison	-257
41	Columbia	-265
42	Nebraska	-274
43	Oklahoma State	-276
50	Murray State	-323
75	Santa Clara	-540
100	Quinnipiac	-721
125	Fairleigh Dickinson	-860
150	New Mexico	-1015
175	ULM	-1143
200	Maryland Eastern Shore	-1300
225	Wake Forest	-1474
250	UTA	-1597
275	Memphis	-1737
300	New Mexico State	-1912
325	Utah Tech	-2144
350	Portland State	-2343
357	Valparaiso	-2705

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) 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

Ohio State Wins:
Ohio State Loses:

1.9 RPI Points
-7.3 RPI Points

	Final/1OT		1	2	3	4	OT	T
		USC (18-13, 9-9 Big Ten)	13	13	13	22	10	71
		Clemson (21-12, 11-7 ACC)	14	14	15	18	6	67

USC Wins:
USC Loses:

2.1 RPI Points
-2.9 RPI Points

	10:00 PM		1	2	3	4	T
		California Baptist (23-10, 15-3 Western Athletic)					0
		2 UCLA (31-1, 18-0 Big Ten)					0

UCLA Wins:
UCLA Loses:

0.2 RPI Points
-4.7 RPI Points

	9:30 PM		1	2	3	4	T
		Colorado (22-11, 11-7 Big 12)					0
		Illinois (21-11, 9-9 Big Ten)					0

Illinois Wins:
Illinois Loses:

1.7 RPI Points
-3.2 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Fairleigh Dickinson (28-5, 18-0 NEC)	17	9	7	15	48
		7 Iowa (27-6, 15-3 Big Ten)	20	7	8	23	58

Iowa Wins:
Iowa Loses:

0.9 RPI Points
-3.9 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Rhode Island (27-5, 16-2 Atlantic 10)	13	10	12	20	55
		Alabama (24-10, 7-9 SEC)	16	15	22	15	68

Alabama Wins:
Alabama Loses:

1.4 RPI Points
-3.3 RPI Points