Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Louisville Men's Basketball

2025 Louisville Cardinals 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	Auburn	1391
13	Saint Mary's College	657
14	Marquette	627
15	Wisconsin	565
16	Drake	481
17	San Diego State	456
18	Florida	364
19	UC Irvine	271
20	Kentucky	170
21	Nevada	138
22	Mississippi State	127
23	West Virginia	126
24	Baylor	106
25	UCF	94
26	North Texas	92
27	Butler	74
28	Wichita State	42
29	Rhode Island	41
30	Michigan	41
31	Clemson	33
32	Louisville	-
33	Bradley	-6
34	McNeese	-19
35	Loyola-Chicago	-39
36	Boise State	-42
37	Washington State	-66
38	Michigan State	-75
39	Vanderbilt	-77
40	Georgia	-86
41	Furman	-115
42	Nebraska	-152
43	Kent State	-165
44	Liberty	-212
45	Montana	-240
46	LSU	-251
47	California	-291
48	Saint Bonaventure	-292
49	Northern Colorado	-325
50	Washington	-340
51	Texas A&M	-343
75	Ohio State	-642
100	Virginia	-802
125	Stanford	-1012
150	Lehigh	-1170
175	Jacksonville State	-1316
200	Cal State Fullerton	-1429
225	Montana State	-1525
250	Jackson State	-1679
275	San Jose State	-1890
300	Incarnate Word	-2072
325	Miami (FL)	-2357
350	Navy	-2687
357	Bellarmine	-2875

Direct Impact Games

	9:00 PM		1	2	T
		23 Ole Miss (6-1, 0-0 SEC)			0
		Louisville (5-2, 0-0 ACC)			0

Louisville Wins:
Louisville Losses:

156 RPI Points
-211 RPI Points

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	7:30 PM		1	2	T
		Syracuse (4-2, 0-0 ACC)			0
		3 Tennessee (7-0, 0-0 SEC)			0

Tennessee Wins:
Tennessee Loses:

0.0 RPI Points
-89.3 RPI Points

	7:00 PM		1	2	T
		Winthrop (4-3, 0-0 Big South)			0
		Queens (2-4, 0-0 ASUN)			0

Winthrop Wins:
Winthrop Loses:

38.3 RPI Points
-51.0 RPI Points

	7:30 PM		1	2	T
		Sam Houston State (3-4, 0-0 Conference USA)			0
		Indiana (5-2, 0-0 Big Ten)			0

Indiana Wins:
Indiana Loses:

25.5 RPI Points
-63.8 RPI Points

	9:00 PM		1	2	T
		Georgia Tech (4-3, 0-0 ACC)			0
		21 Oklahoma (7-0, 0-0 SEC)			0

Oklahoma Wins:
Oklahoma Loses:

0.0 RPI Points
-89.3 RPI Points