DeWayne Brown II Posts 17 Points and 17 Rebounds as No. 8 Tennessee Pulls Away From Wofford 90-59
DeWayne Brown II had 17 points and 17 rebounds as No. 8 Tennessee beat Wofford 90-59 on Tuesday night at Food City Center in Knoxville.
Photo: Tennessee Athletics. Official roster headshot of DeWayne Brown II, forward, Tennessee men's basketball, 2026-27 season.
DeWayne Brown II had 17 points and 17 rebounds as No. 8 Tennessee beat Wofford 90-59 on Tuesday night at Food City Center in Knoxville. He is the first Tennessee player to post at least 17 and 17 in a game since Jarnell Stokes had 17 points and 18 rebounds against Mercer in the 2014 NCAA Tournament, per Tennessee's student newspaper. The Volunteers led only 34-31 at halftime, then outscored the Terriers 56-28 after the break.
Brown shot 7 of 11 from the field and 3 of 3 at the line in 32 minutes, per the official box score. Twelve of his rebounds came on the defensive end and five on the offensive glass. He added three assists and two blocks, with four turnovers. Twelve of his 17 points came in the second half, by our count from the play-by-play.
Terrence Hill Jr. matched him with 17 points while missing all six of his 3-point attempts. Hill got there on 6-of-13 shooting and 5-of-5 free throws. Tyler Lundblade added 12 points on four 3-pointers, and Troy Henderson scored 10 off the bench. The crowd was 18,389.
A 34-31 half, then a 41-15 stretch
Tennessee trailed in the rebounding count at halftime, per the student paper, and shot 12 of 29 before the break, by our count from the team totals (34-65 for the game, 22-36 in the second half). The Vols also went four minutes and two seconds without a field goal in the middle of the first half, from 12:14 to 8:12, by our count.
The second half flipped fast. Tennessee scored 18 of the first 23 points after intermission and led 52-36 at the 15:00 mark, by our count from the play-by-play. With five minutes left it was 75-46. Over the first 15 minutes of the half, Tennessee outscored Wofford 41-15, by our count. The Associated Press clocked it as a 36-10 burst over the first 14 minutes.
Wofford went 6 minutes and 36 seconds without a field goal inside that stretch, from 17:10 to 10:34 of the second half, by our count. Tennessee shot 22 of 36 (61.1%) in the half, and its lead peaked at 32.
The student paper credited him with 12 points and nine rebounds after halftime, and all three of his assists came in the second half.
The box score, side by side
Full-game team numbers, per the official box score:
| Category | Tennessee | Wofford | | --- | --- | --- | | Field goals | 34-65 (52.3%) | 19-62 (30.6%) | | 3-pointers | 7-23 | 6-27 | | Free throws | 15-16 | 15-23 | | Rebounds | 42 | 34 | | Points in the paint | 52 | 24 | | Fast-break points | 27 | 6 |
Seven 3-pointers produced 21 points, so 69 of Tennessee's 90 points came on 2-pointers and free throws, by our count. Fifty-two of those 69 came in the paint.
Wofford grabbed 13 offensive rebounds for the game. Brown alone pulled down 12 of Tennessee's 31 defensive rebounds, or 38.7%, by our count. He also had five of Tennessee's 11 offensive rebounds.
The Terriers made 19 field goals all night on 62 tries, and their 6-of-27 mark from 3-point range came out to 22.2%. Cam Lowe led Wofford with 14 points. Chris Arias and Cutter Sisk had 10 each, and Sisk scored nine of his 10 in the second half, by our count.
What came before Tuesday
Tennessee arrived with questions on the glass. The Vols struggled on the boards in two public exhibitions against Xavier and Duke, per the student paper, and lost both by double digits, per the AP.
Rick Barnes added eight transfers after three straight Elite Eight trips, per the AP. Brown, a 6-foot-8, 248-pound sophomore, is one of only two players back from last season's Elite Eight team, per the student paper.
"DeWayne Brown's a really good basketball player," Barnes said, per the student paper. "I've said before, when we bring recruits in and show them highlights of what we're trying to get done is amazing. DeWayne's in almost all those highlights."
Wofford coach Kevin Giltner saw it from the other bench. "It's like running into a brick wall when he ducks in," he said, per the student paper.
The two programs last met in the first round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky, a 77-62 win for the second-seeded Vols, per the AP. Wofford went 19-13 last season.
Tennessee entered the season No. 8 in the AP Top 25. It hosts Radford on Monday. Wofford plays at North Carolina on Friday.
Sources:
- Tennessee Athletics: official box score, Tennessee vs. Wofford (Nov. 3, 2026)
- utdailybeacon.com, Tennessee student newspaper: 'Defensive end' DeWayne Brown II motors Tennessee basketball to season-opening win
- Associated Press via ESPN: Tennessee vs. Wofford game story
- ESPN: Wofford vs. Tennessee box score and play-by-play
- NCAA.com: AP Top 25 men's basketball poll
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