2020 Northwestern Wildcats 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
1455
25
Illinois State
470
50
Mississippi State
144
51
Charleston
137
52
Oregon State
131
53
Utah
128
54
Northwestern State
128
55
Georgia Tech
119
56
East Tennessee State
118
57
Virginia Tech
118
58
Vanderbilt
100
59
Penn
99
60
Eastern Illinois
84
61
Virginia
75
62
Appalachian State
58
63
Western Michigan
41
64
Michigan
35
65
New Mexico
31
66
Illinois
29
67
Louisiana Tech
23
68
North Carolina
14
69
ULM
11
70
Northwestern
-
71
Rhode Island
-2
72
UNCG
-4
73
Connecticut
-5
74
UNCW
-10
75
Long Beach State
-21
76
Abilene Christian
-41
77
New Mexico State
-47
78
Duke
-54
79
Maryland
-76
80
New Orleans
-90
81
Belmont
-97
82
Hawaii
-110
83
Lipscomb
-111
84
BYU
-114
85
UC Riverside
-140
86
Incarnate Word
-152
87
Missouri
-156
88
Kentucky
-164
89
Villanova
-196
100
Indiana State
-286
125
Washington
-387
150
Boise State
-531
175
FIU
-699
200
Southeast Missouri
-900
225
Northern Colorado
-1081
250
The Citadel
-1267
275
Oakland
-1689
301
Delaware State
-2612
 

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

No significant Indirect Impact Games today