COLUMBIA, Mo. • Cameron Biedscheid’s brief time with the Missouri basketball team is over.
“Cameron will no longer be a member of our basketball program as he attends to personal matters,” first-year Tigers coach Kim Anderson said in a prepared statement Tuesday. “We wish him and his family all the best and hope everyone will respect their privacy during this period of time.”
Missouri will have no further comment at this time, team spokesman Dave Reiter said in a text message. Anderson is scheduled to meet with reporters Wednesday to discuss the team, which begins preseason practice on Friday.
Dan Biedscheid, the player’s father, declined to comment when reached Tuesday, saying only that Biedscheid has no future plans yet. The 6-7 guard was expected to provide perimeter scoring as part of Mizzou's rebuilt roster this season.
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Biedscheid, a former Post-Dispatch high school player of the year at Cardinal Ritter, transferred to Mizzou from Notre Dame in January and sat out the remainder of Missouri's season per NCAA transfer rules. He became the seventh Division I transfer to join Missouri in three years under former coach Frank Haith. Biedscheid would have been eligible to play for the Tigers at the end of the current semester, though Missouri had sought an NCAA waiver for Biedscheid to play immediately this fall.
“It would be huge,” Biedscheid said in June. “I’d love it. I’d be extremely excited. I hope it will happen.”
A three-time all-state player at Cardinal Ritter, Biedscheid averaged 31.7 points, 9.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists as a senior. Haith made late overtures to Biedscheid shortly after he was hired in 2011, but Biedscheid had already been committed to Notre Dame. At Notre Dame, Biedscheid scored in double figures six times as a freshman in 2012-13, and led the Irish in scoring in three games. Biedscheid averaged 6.2 points and shot 30.3 percent from 3-point range as a freshman. He missed only one game, serving a one-game Big East suspension after trading punches with a player from St. John’s.
Biedscheid is the third Missouri player to part ways since Anderson’s arrival. Guard Shane Rector transferred in May. Forward Torren Jones was dismissed for an undisclosed violation of team rules in August.