The facility is shared between the men's and women's basketball teams, as well as the indoor volleyball team. The court is named for Patty Ferrer and Cathy Henson, whose families were the main contributors to the project. The facility was built using an unused aquatics facility, with the court being built over the swimming pool after being filled in with concrete and padding. In April 2016, the facility was completed, slightly under its initial $1 million budget. In March 2014, work was started on a practice facility for the team as part of an incentive package at the request of head coach Ron Hunter. The 200,000 square foot facility is expected to cost approximately $80 million. This new facility, which is expected to be completed in 2021, will house GSU basketball games and commencement ceremonies, as well as concerts, and conferences. In 2018, it was announced that an 8,000-seat arena and convocation center just south of Interstate 20 near the recently acquired Turner Field property was in the process of being developed. These plans have since been abandoned in favor of a brand new arena adjacent to Georgia State Stadium, which was previously known as Turner Field. Plans were released in 2012 to renovate the arena to turn the court 90 degrees, allowing for the court to be completely surrounded by seating with a new capacity of 5,000. After the 2014–15 season, the center-hanging scoreboard was replaced with a four-sided hanging video scoreboard.
The basketball court is named the Charles "Lefty" Driesell Court in honor of the former Panthers men's basketball coach. The facility was originally built in 1972 as a student gym and classroom space for physical education classes.
The Panthers play their home games at the GSU Sports Arena, located at 125 Decatur Street in the heart of the Georgia State campus. The GSU Sports Arena during a men's basketball game GSU Sports Arena
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