Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Norfolk State Women's Basketball

2026 Norfolk State Spartans 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	2435
25	Texas Tech	1471
50	Murray State	1163
75	Santa Clara	946
100	Quinnipiac	765
125	East Carolina	624
150	Central Michigan	468
175	ULM	343
200	Furman	183
209	Cal State Fullerton	110
210	Eastern Michigan	86
211	FAU	85
212	Little Rock	83
213	Sacramento State	82
214	West Georgia	77
215	Southern Miss	75
216	Elon	61
217	South Alabama	58
218	Butler	49
219	Iona	40
220	Tarleton State	34
221	East Tennessee State	30
222	Eastern Washington	27
223	Saint Louis	16
224	Wake Forest	14
225	Samford	10
226	Incarnate Word	8
227	Cornell	5
228	Norfolk State	-
229	Washington State	-11
230	Tennessee Tech	-16
231	Xavier	-26
232	Mercer	-29
233	Oakland	-30
234	Jacksonville State	-31
235	Loyola-Maryland	-32
236	IU Indianapolis	-39
237	Fresno State	-50
238	Saint Mary's College	-61
239	Southeast Missouri	-65
240	Delaware	-70
241	SMU	-82
242	VCU	-90
243	Pacific	-92
244	Mount Saint Mary's	-99
245	Dartmouth	-100
246	Appalachian State	-104
247	Tennessee-Martin	-105
250	UTA	-110
275	Alcorn State	-250
300	New Mexico State	-425
325	UNC Asheville	-659
350	Portland State	-856
357	Valparaiso	-1222

Direct 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:

37 RPI Points
-54 RPI Points

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

Howard Wins:
Howard Loses:

3.5 RPI Points
-11.3 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Syracuse (24-8, 12-6 ACC)	11	30	13	18	72
		Iowa State (22-10, 10-8 Big 12)	14	12	16	21	63

Iowa State Wins:
Iowa State Loses:

1.6 RPI Points
-3.6 RPI Points

	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:

1.0 RPI Points
-3.9 RPI Points