With a winter-storm warning issued by the National Weather Service in effect from 4 p.m. Friday to 1 p.m. Saturday., the Georgia Tech athletic department is monitoring the weather, but plans to hold the basketball team’s game Saturday against Louisville at 2 p.m. at McCamish Pavilion.
The forecast calls for snow between two and four inches. The precipitation could make roads slick and travel dangerous. The NWS urged people to exercise “extreme caution if travel is necessary.”
ACC policy is that the primary reason for a game to be canceled or postponed is if teams, game officials or game management staff are unable to make it to and from the game site safely. A Louisville spokesman said that the team is keeping an eye on travel developments, but hadn’t yet changed its travel plans to fly to Atlanta on Friday afternoon. Louisville closed its campus on Thursday because of its own weather issues.
Tech dealt with severe weather conditions in the winter of 2014. While the city was gridlocked by an ice storm and a state of emergency declared for the city of Atlanta, Tech played North Carolina at McCamish Pavilion on Jan. 29 of that year while discouraging attendance for fans not within walking distance of McCamish.
In February, a game between Tech and Boston College was postponed one day after the Tech athletic association determined that weather road conditions had made it unsafe for essential game operations personnel, game officials and fans to reach the arena.
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