Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Purdue Women's Basketball

2026 Purdue Boilermakers 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	1885
25	Syracuse	651
50	Penn State	348
74	Rice	156
75	Ohio State	146
76	Wisconsin	145
77	Old Dominion	140
78	Vermont	121
79	Eastern Michigan	118
80	FGCU	117
81	Harvard	86
82	Ball State	83
83	Georgia	83
84	Florida	67
85	LSU	64
86	Virginia	43
87	South Florida	35
88	Boise State	24
89	UC Santa Barbara	21
90	Arkansas State	16
91	Western Illinois	14
92	Army	13
93	Purdue	-
94	Clemson	-7
95	UC Irvine	-9
96	Oklahoma State	-42
97	Austin Peay	-42
98	Minnesota	-42
99	Georgetown	-58
100	Charleston	-73
101	Pepperdine	-74
102	Temple	-76
103	Georgia Southern	-91
104	Northern Iowa	-94
105	Longwood	-95
106	Green Bay	-114
107	UC Davis	-119
108	Virginia Tech	-133
109	High Point	-133
110	Marshall	-136
111	Fairleigh Dickinson	-138
112	UNLV	-151
125	Bowling Green	-248
150	Creighton	-397
175	Abilene Christian	-534
200	Colgate	-677
225	Southern Utah	-798
250	Winthrop	-967
275	Campbell	-1162
300	Fordham	-1361
325	Omaha	-1559
350	North Dakota	-1920
357	Western Carolina	-2079

Direct Impact Games

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Jackson State (1-9, 0-0 SWAC)	15	9	19	19	62
		Purdue (8-4, 0-1 Big Ten)	28	26	18	21	93

Purdue Wins:
Purdue Loses:

-56 RPI Points
-391 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Oakland (2-9, 0-2 Horizon League)	16	11	15	12	54
		6 Michigan (10-1, 1-0 Big Ten)	30	24	17	26	97

Michigan Wins:
Michigan Loses:

3.2 RPI Points
-31.6 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Evansville (2-10, 0-1 Missouri Valley)	20	14	14	18	66
		Dayton (7-5, 0-1 Atlantic 10)	21	19	20	15	75

Evansville Wins:
Evansville Loses:

26.7 RPI Points
-5.3 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Evansville (2-10, 0-1 Missouri Valley)	20	14	14	18	66
		Dayton (7-5, 0-1 Atlantic 10)	21	19	20	15	75

Dayton Wins:
Dayton Loses:

13.4 RPI Points
-18.7 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Lindenwood (7-4, 1-1 Ohio Valley)	22	21	19	25	87
		Eastern Illinois (1-12, 0-2 Ohio Valley)	15	12	10	18	55

Eastern Illinois Wins:
Eastern Illinois Loses:

27.5 RPI Points
-2.3 RPI Points