Mizzou center enters transfer portal — with no traditional eligibility remaining

Missouri Tigers men’s basketball center Josh Gray appears to be leaving Columbia through the transfer portal in search of playing opportunities elsewhere.

Pete Nakos of On3 reported Wednesday that Gray — who averaged 3.2 points and a team-best 5.3 rebounds per game for Mizzou during the 2024-25 season — is entering the portal after one season with head coach Dennis Gates and the Tigers.

That leads to an obvious question:

How exactly could that even happen?

Gray appears to have used up all of his NCAA eligibility. Between stops at LSU, South Carolina and MU, a team spokesperson told The Star Wednesday, Gray has exhausted his traditional four years of eligibility, as well as a COVID redshirt season.

Interestingly enough, Gray not too long ago indicated the 2024-25 season would be his last as a college basketball player.

“Everything that I’ve absorbed here, that I’ve got to witness and be a part of, it’s been great,” Gray said during a January MU hoops news conference. “So that’s why I said that I wish I was here two years ago, that would have been my junior year. Because I wish I had more time.”

It’s unclear whether, or how, Gray might be granted an extra year of eligibility. But it does appear as if he’s on the hunt for his fourth college program.