Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Rutgers Women's Basketball

2026 Rutgers Scarlet Knights 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	2164
25	Texas Tech	1197
50	Vermont	893
75	Santa Clara	675
100	Quinnipiac	495
125	Fairleigh Dickinson	356
150	Central Michigan	197
169	Alabama A&M	106
170	Longwood	93
171	Radford	90
172	Bradley	89
173	Ohio	87
174	Austin Peay	85
175	ULM	73
176	Northern Kentucky	69
177	Merrimack	59
178	Illinois State	48
179	Houston	38
180	Florida State	25
181	Bryant	22
182	Towson	20
183	Northwestern State	17
184	Middle Tennessee	12
185	George Washington	3
186	Stony Brook	3
187	Northwestern	0
188	Rutgers	-
189	Grand Canyon	-17
190	Bowling Green	-21
191	Providence	-22
192	Saint Bonaventure	-23
193	William & Mary	-24
194	Charlotte	-25
195	North Alabama	-35
196	Albany	-45
197	Chattanooga	-65
198	Air Force	-68
199	Robert Morris	-80
200	Maryland Eastern Shore	-84
201	Furman	-89
202	Arizona	-95
203	Utah Valley	-105
204	UCF	-122
205	Oral Roberts	-124
206	Wofford	-137
207	Coastal Carolina	-148
225	Wake Forest	-256
250	UTA	-381
275	Memphis	-521
300	New Mexico State	-696
325	Utah Tech	-928
350	Portland State	-1127
357	Valparaiso	-1493

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Halftime		1	2	3	4	T
		23 Princeton (26-3, 12-2 Ivy League)	13	20			33
		Oklahoma State (22-9, 12-6 Big 12)	23	25			48

Princeton Wins:
Princeton Loses:

0.6 RPI Points
-5.2 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:

2.3 RPI Points
-3.1 RPI Points

	9:30 PM		1	2	3	4	T
		Colorado (22-11, 11-7 Big 12)					0
		Illinois (21-11, 9-9 Big Ten)					0

Illinois Wins:
Illinois Loses:

1.8 RPI Points
-3.4 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
-4.4 RPI Points

	10:00 PM		1	2	3	4	T
		California Baptist (23-10, 15-3 Western Athletic)					0
		2 UCLA (31-1, 18-0 Big Ten)					0

UCLA Wins:
UCLA Loses:

0.2 RPI Points
-5.1 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

Iowa Wins:
Iowa Loses:

0.9 RPI Points
-4.1 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:

0.8 RPI Points
-4.3 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