Celebrating 35 years of basketball in the Ferrell Center
…ond question’s a little more difficult; the Ferrell Center debuted on Sept. 22, 1988, with a visit from then-President Ronald Reagan. If you got the third question, then I tip my cap to you. The first Baylor sporting event in the Ferrell Center — Nov. 17, 1988 — was a men’s basketball exhibition game against the Adelaide 36ers, an Australian professional basketball team that’s actually still in existence today. (Many years later, Baylor fan favori…