Upcoming RPI Impact Games for Northwestern Men's Basketball

2025 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	Auburn	1531
25	UC Irvine	637
50	San Francisco	386
75	Charleston	132
76	Ohio State	131
77	UC Riverside	127
78	Towson	113
79	Saint Joseph's	112
80	Stanford	104
81	Saint Louis	89
82	Utah Valley	87
83	Santa Clara	76
84	Northern Iowa	74
85	Belmont	65
86	James Madison	62
87	Saint Bonaventure	60
88	Grand Canyon	51
89	Miami (OH)	51
90	Texas	31
91	Troy	29
92	Robert Morris	26
93	Cincinnati	20
94	Samford	17
95	Northwestern	-
96	TCU	-7
97	Princeton	-28
98	Louisiana Tech	-37
99	Kennesaw State	-38
100	Winthrop	-39
101	USC	-41
102	Arizona State	-49
103	FAU	-54
104	Lipscomb	-54
105	Mount Saint Mary's	-59
106	UCF	-59
107	UNC Asheville	-60
108	Rutgers	-75
109	Bryant	-77
110	Illinois State	-86
111	Northern Colorado	-95
112	Minnesota	-95
113	Cal State Northridge	-99
114	Pittsburgh	-104
125	Wofford	-141
150	Southeast Missouri	-292
175	SIUE	-409
200	Bucknell	-529
225	South Carolina State	-639
250	Colgate	-783
275	Northern Arizona	-907
300	Texas Southern	-1064
325	IU Indianapolis	-1241
350	San Diego	-1489
357	Sacramento State	-1697

Direct Impact Games

No Direct Impact Games today

Indirect (SOS) Impact Games

	2nd Half - 4:45		1	2	T
		22 Purdue (24-11, 13-7 Big Ten)	31	22	53
		2 Houston (32-4, 19-1 Big 12)	29	28	57

Purdue Wins:
Purdue Loses:

1.3 RPI Points
-2.9 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	T
		Ole Miss (24-12, 10-8 SEC)	33	37	70
		8 Michigan State (30-6, 17-3 Big Ten)	31	42	73

Michigan State Wins:
Michigan State Loses:

0.7 RPI Points
-3.4 RPI Points

	Final		1	2	T
		14 Michigan (27-10, 14-6 Big Ten)	29	36	65
		4 Auburn (31-5, 15-3 SEC)	30	48	78

Michigan Wins:
Michigan Loses:

1.1 RPI Points
-2.9 RPI Points