Women’s Basketball: ACC moves UVA-NC State game to Saturday due to forecast snow, ice

The ACC has moved the Virginia-NC State women’s basketball game scheduled for Sunday to a 3 p.m. Saturday start, an hour, roughly, from the conclusion of the Virginia-North Carolina men’s game.

The projected 8-12 inches of snow in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area is why.

Be careful, would be the advice here: both AccuWeather and The Weather Channel are projecting the snow to start locally around 4 p.m. Saturday, which means, fans would be heading home in the 5 p.m. hour with around an inch of snow on the ground already.

But that’s better than trying to play on Sunday at noon, after the snow has fallen – and it’s supposed to be 1-3 inches of snow and ice down in the Raleigh area, for the NC State folks heading home.

Their bad weather doesn’t start down there until around 9 p.m. Saturday night; the State team should be rolling into town around that time.

In terms of the fan ingress and egress from JPJ on Saturday, yeah, it’ll be a cluster.

Parking for women’s basketball is first-come, first-served. Copley Road will be the only road open to get to JPJ, until egress has concluded for the men’s game.

Fans are encouraged to backfill open parking spaces following the conclusion of the men’s basketball game.

Additional parking will be available at the Emmet Ivy Garage, which is free for women’s basketball fans after 12 p.m.

Gates will open for the women’s game at 2:30 p.m.

Hope there’s no OT in the UVA-UNC game, right?

Expect delays, both ways.