No. 12 Tennessee will open its 2024-25 basketball season against Gardner-Webb on Nov. 4 (7 p.m. EST).
Tennessee won the 2023-24 SEC regular-season championship and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for a second time in school history.
During the preseason, Vols Wire will profile players on Tennessee’s 2024-25 men’s basketball roster. This installment will feature guard Darlinstone Dubar.
Dubar will play his final collegiate season for the Vols. He transferred to Tennessee after playing three years at Hofstra and his freshman season at Iowa State.
As a senior, Dubar was a Second-Team All-CAA performer. He appeared in all 33 of Hofstra’s games, averaging 17.4 points, 6.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.2 steals per contest. He recorded eight double-doubles last season.
As a junior at Hofstra, Dubar appeared in a school-record 35 games, including 35 starts. He averaged 10.0 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game.
During his sophomore year at Hofstra, Dubar appeared in 32 games, including 31 starts. He averaged 11.7 points, 4.6 rebounds 1.21steals and 1.0 assists per game.
At Iowa State as a freshman, he appeared in 16 games and averaged 2.3 points and 2.4 rebounds per contest.
