The ACC’s bad-weather policy for basketball is simple, if perhaps short-sighted: if the teams, officials and sufficient game-management staff can get there, the game will be played.
That’s why, last winter, N.C. State hosted Duke in a half-full building during a state of emergency. That’s why, three years ago, Duke and North Carolina would have played in an ice storm if the Blue Devils’ bus had been able to get to Durham to pick them up.
By those established criteria, Saturday night’s game between N.C. State and North Carolina would have been played, as scheduled, at 8 p.