Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Notre Dame Women's Basketball

2026 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 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	974
7	Duke	470
8	Michigan	422
9	TCU	397
10	Princeton	322
11	LSU	296
12	West Virginia	284
13	Ohio State	239
14	Baylor	208
15	Alabama	144
16	Oklahoma	135
17	North Carolina	121
18	Louisville	99
19	Rhode Island	90
20	Richmond	83
21	Ole Miss	79
22	Kentucky	78
23	Villanova	72
24	Minnesota	25
25	Texas Tech	9
26	Notre Dame	-
27	Washington	-54
28	Colorado	-62
29	Maryland	-67
30	Michigan State	-71
31	Tennessee	-85
32	North Carolina State	-93
33	Arizona State	-110
34	Rice	-155
35	George Mason	-164
36	Oregon	-180
37	South Dakota State	-194
38	USC	-196
39	Georgia Southern	-231
40	James Madison	-232
41	Columbia	-240
42	Nebraska	-249
43	Oklahoma State	-251
44	Troy	-262
45	Louisiana Tech	-272
50	Murray State	-298
75	Santa Clara	-515
100	Quinnipiac	-696
125	Fairleigh Dickinson	-835
150	New Mexico	-990
175	ULM	-1118
200	Maryland Eastern Shore	-1275
225	Wake Forest	-1449
250	UTA	-1572
275	Memphis	-1712
300	New Mexico State	-1887
325	Utah Tech	-2119
350	Portland State	-2318
357	Valparaiso	-2680

Direct 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:

61 RPI Points
-25 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	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:

1.7 RPI Points
-6.7 RPI Points

	4th Qtr - 9:17		1	2	3	4	T
		Syracuse (23-8, 12-6 ACC)	11	30	13	2	56
		Iowa State (22-9, 10-8 Big 12)	14	12	16	2	44

Syracuse Wins:
Syracuse Loses:

1.2 RPI Points
-3.5 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:

2.0 RPI Points
-2.7 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:

1.6 RPI Points
-3.0 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:

1.6 RPI Points
-2.8 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

Fairleigh Dickinson Wins:
Fairleigh Dickinson Loses:

0.7 RPI Points
-3.8 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		UTSA (17-16, 9-9 American)	6	8	16	22	52
		1 Connecticut (35-0, 20-0 Big East)	19	29	27	15	90

Connecticut Wins:
Connecticut Loses:

0.0 RPI Points
-4.2 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		James Madison (26-9, 14-4 Sun Belt)	10	8	18	20	56
		16 Kentucky (24-10, 8-8 SEC)	32	11	13	15	71

James Madison Wins:
James Madison Loses:

1.1 RPI Points
-3.1 RPI Points