Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Southern Women's Basketball

2026 Southern Jaguars 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	2052
25	Texas Tech	1085
50	Vermont	781
75	Santa Clara	563
100	Quinnipiac	383
125	Fairleigh Dickinson	244
148	New Mexico	88
149	Cincinnati	86
150	Central Michigan	85
151	Portland	81
152	Temple	80
153	Lehigh	71
154	Idaho State	61
155	Morehead State	53
156	Purdue Fort Wayne	47
157	FGCU	47
158	Dayton	42
159	Arkansas	40
160	Georgetown	34
161	Monmouth	33
162	Tulsa	28
163	Loyola-Chicago	22
164	UC Santa Barbara	20
165	Toledo	8
166	Kent State	3
167	Southern	-
168	Campbell	-2
169	Alabama A&M	-6
170	Longwood	-19
171	Radford	-22
172	Bradley	-23
173	Ohio	-25
174	Austin Peay	-27
175	ULM	-39
176	Northern Kentucky	-43
177	Merrimack	-53
178	Illinois State	-64
179	Houston	-74
180	Florida State	-87
181	Bryant	-90
182	Towson	-92
183	Northwestern State	-95
184	Middle Tennessee	-100
185	George Washington	-109
186	Stony Brook	-109
200	Maryland Eastern Shore	-196
225	Wake Forest	-368
250	UTA	-493
275	Memphis	-633
300	New Mexico State	-808
325	Utah Tech	-1040
350	Portland State	-1239
357	Valparaiso	-1605

Direct Impact Games

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		Southern (18-14, 12-6 SWAC)	6	13	2	13	34
		4 South Carolina (32-3, 15-1 SEC)	19	25	32	27	103

Southern Wins:
Southern Loses:

126 RPI Points
49 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	Final		1	2	3	4	T
		South Alabama (17-18, 5-13 Sun Belt)	17	17	14	25	73
		Alcorn State (14-14, 14-4 SWAC)	12	17	15	21	65

Alcorn State Wins:
Alcorn State Loses:

2.7 RPI Points
-2.7 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

Iowa State Wins:
Iowa State Loses:

1.5 RPI Points
-3.3 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:

0.1 RPI Points
-4.6 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:

0.8 RPI Points
-3.8 RPI Points