ATLANTA -- There was no winner Thursday night in a scheduled game between the only ACC men's basketball teams without a winning record.

Approximately 30 minutes after an anticipated 7 p.m. tipoff, the game was postponed in an announcement that was greeted by a chorus of boos.

The Counting Crows song, "Rain King," could be heard over the public-address system.

No make-up date was announced, but there was resolve on all sides to play the game at a later date.

"It is imperative to get this game rescheduled so the athletes will have a complete schedule," second-year Georgia Tech athletic director Dan Radakovich said.

There was no way to play the game while Virginia (12-12 overall, 2-9 ACC) was in town because the Yellow Jackets (11-13, 4-6) will fly to Roanoke this morning for a game Saturday with Virginia Tech.

Virginia entertains North Carolina State at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

"I looked at the schedule briefly and it doesn't look like there's a two-day window where we can easily get this game made up," said Jon Oliver, UVa's associate athletic director, who was on the trip.

"I've already talked to [AD] Craig [Littlepage] and it looks like he's going to have to get together with the conference office to see how we get that done.

"It looks like it may have to be played after the end of the regular season and before Thursday's [ACC] Tournament games."

Virginia's entertains Maryland in its final regular-season game March 9, which is a Sunday.

If Virginia were to get a two-day window, that would place a make-up game on Tuesday, March 11, which could throw the tournament pairings and schedules out of whack.

"Didn't Nebraska and Oklahoma State play after the regular season [in the Big 12] last year?" Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt asked.

The answer to that question is yes.

The Cornhuskers and Cowboys had to postpone a game in January 2007 because of an ice storm. The game was played on the Monday before the Big 12 Tournament, which began on a Thursday.

Other ACC games have been postponed for weather-related issues such as snow and icestorms, but nobody could remember another occasion when a game had been "rained" out.

In 2001, a game between Virginia and Michigan State was suspended when unusually warm weather caused condensation from the ice under the basketball floor at Richmond Coliseum.

That game was suspended with 15:04 remaining in the second half and never completed.

ACC supervisor of men's basketball officials John Clougherty, who had travelled to Atlanta as an observer, said he remembered refereeing an NCAA title game between Kentucky and Syracuse during which the roof at the Meadowlands started leaking.

"I got [Rick] Pitino and coach [Jim] Boeheim together and we talked about it," Clougherty said.

"Of course, it's the national championship game and you don't have a lot of options there. We played the second half with a leak in the roof."

The Georgia Tech women's basketball team practiced at Alexander Memorial Coliseum without incident until about 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

Managers noticed droplets on the floor shortly after the men's teams started their shootaround at 6 p.m. and if there were workers who could repair the roof, "they're not here right now," Radakovich said.

Alexander Coliseum opened in 1956 and is the one of the nation's oldest venues for college basketball, although it did get a new roof in 1983.

"I thought we were going to play," said Hewitt when asked for his first reaction Thursday, "but they made the right decision. It's a different time. It's a different age now.

"The issue of insurance and liability becomes a huge factor. I think that was the overriding part of the decision. Ten or 15 years ago, you play this game."