Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Northern Iowa Women's Basketball

2026 Northern Iowa Panthers 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	Connecticut	1987
25	Syracuse	744
50	Penn State	442
75	Wisconsin	239
85	LSU	158
86	Virginia	136
87	South Florida	128
88	Boise State	118
89	UC Santa Barbara	113
90	Arkansas State	109
91	Western Illinois	108
92	Army	107
93	Purdue	94
94	Clemson	88
95	UC Irvine	85
96	Minnesota	52
97	Oklahoma State	52
98	Austin Peay	50
99	Georgetown	36
100	Pepperdine	33
101	Charleston	22
102	Temple	18
103	Georgia Southern	3
104	Northern Iowa	-
105	Longwood	-1
106	Green Bay	-19
107	UC Davis	-29
108	Virginia Tech	-39
109	High Point	-39
110	Marshall	-42
111	Fairleigh Dickinson	-43
112	Kennesaw State	-57
113	UNLV	-58
114	Rutgers	-64
115	Purdue Fort Wayne	-69
116	Drexel	-76
117	Stetson	-80
118	Holy Cross	-94
119	Lindenwood	-95
120	Southern Indiana	-124
121	George Mason	-135
122	Louisiana Tech	-142
123	Arkansas	-143
125	Bowling Green	-153
150	Creighton	-303
175	Abilene Christian	-440
200	Colgate	-584
225	Southern Utah	-704
250	Winthrop	-873
275	UC San Diego	-1070
300	Fordham	-1267
325	Omaha	-1465
350	North Dakota	-1826
357	Western Carolina	-1985

Direct Impact Games

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Northern Iowa (5-6, 1-0 Missouri Valley)	14	9	11	24	58
		Saint Thomas (3-7, 0-0 The Summit League)	15	12	9	4	40

Northern Iowa Wins:
Northern Iowa Loses:

-18 RPI Points
-212 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Kansas (9-3, 0-1 Big 12)	20	14	21	21	76
		10 Iowa State (13-0, 1-0 Big 12)	14	18	27	20	79

Iowa State Wins:
Iowa State Loses:

0.0 RPI Points
-32.5 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		2 Texas (14-0, 0-0 SEC)	17	16	16	21	70
		South Dakota State (10-4, 0-0 The Summit League)	13	11	10	17	51

South Dakota State Wins:
South Dakota State Loses:

8.7 RPI Points
-21.6 RPI Points