Tennessee forward Darlinstone Dubar is officially in the transfer portal after spending one season in Knoxville, Portal Updates first reported Thursday afternoon.
The transfer portal closed earlier this week but Dubar filed the paperwork to enter beforehand. The paperwork just didn’t officially go through until Thursday.
Dubar’s departure has no impact on Tennessee basketball. The forward is out of eligibility and it’s unclear how he would get another season. A multitude of college players with no remaining eligibility entered the portal earlier this week just in case the NCAA passes a rule giving a fifth year of eligibility to every athlete.
But that wouldn’t give Dubar eligibility because he’s already spent five seasons in college starting at Iowa State for a year then Hofstra for three years and Tennessee for his final year.
A 6-foot-6 wing, Dubar played in 33 games in his lone season at Tennessee averaging 3.4 points and 1.8 rebounds per game while shooting 25% from three-point range.
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The Charlotte native was a fringe rotation player for Tennessee last season but had a handful of nice moments. Dubar scored 12 points and grabbed six rebounds in a narrow win at Texas, scored six critical points in Tennessee’s SEC Tournament win over Auburn and hit a three-pointer in the first half of the Vols’ Sweet 16 win over Texas.
Tennessee basketball currently has three scholarships to work with in the transfer portal. They’ve landed Maryland point guard Ja’Kobi Gillespie as well as Vanderbilt power forward Jaylen Carey in the portal to date. Rick Barnes and his staff also landed five-star prep wing Nate Ament alongside three other high school recruits.
The Vols are badly in need of guards, particularly shooting guards, at this point in time. Tennessee has missed out on three different shooting guard targets in Virginia’s Isaac McKneely, Maryland’s Rodney Rice and Oklahoma’s Miles Duke. The first two visited Tennessee while Duke cancelled a visit to Tennessee after committing to Texas A&M.
