Upcoming RPI Impact Games for North Carolina State Women's Basketball

2026 North Carolina State Wolfpack 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	1064
13	Ohio State	330
14	Baylor	296
15	Alabama	235
16	Oklahoma	226
17	North Carolina	214
18	Louisville	193
19	Rhode Island	181
20	Richmond	174
21	Ole Miss	169
22	Kentucky	169
23	Villanova	164
24	Minnesota	116
25	Texas Tech	97
26	Notre Dame	93
27	Washington	36
28	Colorado	24
29	Maryland	24
30	Michigan State	20
31	Tennessee	6
32	North Carolina State	-
33	Arizona State	-24
34	Rice	-64
35	George Mason	-73
36	Oregon	-90
37	South Dakota State	-103
38	USC	-106
39	James Madison	-141
40	Georgia Southern	-143
41	Columbia	-150
42	Nebraska	-158
43	Oklahoma State	-167
44	Troy	-172
45	Syracuse	-174
46	Louisiana Tech	-181
47	Fairfield	-182
48	Montana State	-188
49	Illinois	-205
50	Vermont	-207
51	Murray State	-207
75	Santa Clara	-425
100	Quinnipiac	-605
125	Fairleigh Dickinson	-744
150	Central Michigan	-903
175	ULM	-1027
200	Maryland Eastern Shore	-1184
225	Wake Forest	-1356
250	UTA	-1481
275	Memphis	-1621
300	New Mexico State	-1796
325	Utah Tech	-2028
350	Portland State	-2227
357	Valparaiso	-2593

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	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

Notre Dame Wins:
Notre Dame Loses:

2.9 RPI Points
-6.6 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

	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:

1.7 RPI Points
-3.2 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

Syracuse Wins:
Syracuse Loses:

1.2 RPI Points
-3.7 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

Rhode Island Wins:
Rhode Island Loses:

0.8 RPI Points
-4.1 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

Clemson Wins:
Clemson Loses:

1.7 RPI Points
-3.0 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Vermont (25-8, 13-3 America East)	17	11	10	14	52
		13 Louisville (28-7, 15-3 ACC)	16	16	23	17	72

Louisville Wins:
Louisville Loses:

0.9 RPI Points
-3.6 RPI Points