http://www.columbiatribune.com/sports/mu_basketball/missouri-dismisses-clark-for-failing-to-meet-academic-expectations/article_9de65be0-b4c3-5d73-967a-4f72e888926d.html
The loss of Clark could have repercussions beyond this season because of its impact on the team’s Academic Progress Rate.
The APR tracks a program’s ability to keep its scholarship players in good academic standing and help them progress toward a degree. Each scholarship player can earn one point for staying in school and one point for remaining academically eligible. Players who leave school in poor academic standing are a double hit against a program’s APR.
The basketball team’s average from 2011-12 through 2013-14 was 929.7, just under the 930 mark that could subject it to penalties, according to figures released last May. That included a dismal single-year score of 851 for Coach Frank Haith’s final year of 2013-14.
Seven players on the roster that season — Jordan Clarkson, Jabari Brown, Zach Price, Shane Rector, Jones, Biedscheid and Johnathan Williams III — left the program before they’d exhausted their eligibility and without earning a degree. Clark is now the eighth.