Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith officially announced the hiring of former Drake coach Mark Phelps as an assistant Tuesday.

Phelps, a graduate of Old Dominion, replaces Rick Carter, who recently left to take a job at Xavier. Phelps is the seventh assistant Haith has hired since he took the MU job in April 2011. Haith hired Carter away from Western Michigan last summer when Ryan Miller left to become associate head coach at Auburn after spending less than three months on the staff.

An $8.3 million contribution has earned a former University of Missouri curator naming rights for the school’s golf course at a Columbia country club.

The university’s Board of Curators voted unanimously last week to designate the facility as the Walsworth Family Golf Complex, a part of the Club at Old Hawthorne.

Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith could be close to landing a new assistant.

According to ESPN’s Andy Katz, Haith is adding former Drake coach Mark Phelps to fill out the current vacancy on his staff. A spokesman for the Missouri basketball team said no hire is official, but Haith told reporters last week that he already had a replacement in mind for Rick Carter, who recently left to take a job at Xavier.

Missouri redshirt freshman linebacker Torey Boozer has been dismissed from the program because of undisclosed disciplinary reasons, according to Chad Moller, an associate athletic director at MU.

Boozer came to Missouri as a three-star linebacker from Everman, Texas, with scholarship offers from Arizona, Baylor, Houston, North Texas and Southern Methodist. He redshirted last season, but was one of three players arrested by MU police in October for suspicion of possession of fewer than 35 grams of marijuana. He pleaded guilty to an amended charge of trespassing and paid a fine.

It’s not every year a major college that orbits Kansas City wins an NCAA championship, or claims three conference titles in major sports, or spends its first year in a new league.

But it all happened in 2012-13.

In January, Missouri assistant coach Andy Hill made a declaration to Logan Cheadle: if he wanted a scholarship offer from his home-state school, he needed to add some muscle to his 165-pound frame.

“That’s exactly what Andy Hill told him,” Lee’s Summit West coach Royce Boehm said. “He said you need to put on some bulk and pass the eye test.”

Missouri junior offensive tackle Chris Freeman has left the Tigers’ football team for personal reasons, MU associate athletic director Chad Moller said Thursday.

Freeman, who is listed at 6 feet 8 and 335 pounds, briefly left the team during preseason camp last August, but returned after a few days. He has played little since arriving at Missouri in 2010, appearing in only two games last season despite injuries to other offensive linemen.

Brady Deaton, who as chancellor of the University of Missouri oversaw nine years of growth and change, including — perhaps most visibly — the school’s move to the Southeastern Conference, is retiring effective Nov. 15.

Deaton will continue to serve the school as chancellor emeritus, focusing on MU’s role in international development.