For his career, Clark appeared in 81 games the last three seasons with 45 career starts, averaging 7.6 points and 2.7 assists per game. A four-star recruit in Frank Haith’s 2013 recruiting class, Clark was rated the nation’s No. 72 player by Rivals.com when he chose Mizzou.

Clark was suspended for the final two games of his freshman season after he was arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession. Last season, he served a one-game suspension for missing a practice. He missed the final nine games of his sophomore season when he dislocated his elbow at South Carolina.

His departure leaves the Tigers with just six scholarship guards for the rest of the season and likely will cause further damage to the team’s already shaky Academic Progress Rate.

Last May, the basketball team produced the school’s lowest multiyear ARP score of 941, which ranked 13th among the 14 teams in the SEC. The Tigers’ multiyear score was dragged down by its most recent single-year score for 2013-14: 851, which ranked between the 10-20th percentile for all Division I men’s basketball teams. The multiyear score is a rolling four-year average that measures athlete retention and eligibility. In MU’s case, the heavy roster turnover of players who came to Columbia under Haith contributed heavily to the low scores. Clark is the eighth player from the 2013-14 team that will have left the program before completing his eligibility. Teams are subject to penalties if their four-year APR falls below 930.

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