Tutors at the University of Missouri did excessive academic work for Ricky Clemons, the former Tigers’ basketball player dropped from the team last month, his ex-girlfriend says.

In an interview with The Kansas City Star, Jessica Bunge also gave further details about her previous allegations that Clemons received money from someone in the university basketball program, and disputed coach Quin Snyder’s account of how much clothing the player got from him.

Bunge, a former Missouri student who now goes to school in Chicago, was interviewed there by The Star on Monday night. She said she spoke earlier Monday with an NCAA investigator but would not discuss specifics of that conversation.

In an account of her interview with The Star which the newspaper published Wednesday, Bunge was quoted as saying of Clemons, “He swore he could get away with anything, and they proved it to him.”

Bunge told The Star about incidents involving what she believed to be excessive academic help to Clemons, a junior-college transfer who averaged 14.2 points per game last season.

Clemons was suspended from the team for one game in January after an incident at his apartment involving Bunge, who said he held her there against her will and also choked her.

In April, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of false imprisonment and third-degree assault. He got a 60-day jail sentence for the false imprisonment count and was suspended from the basketball team for all of next season, but retained his scholarship.

Clemons began serving his time under a work-release arrangement. But after he was injured in a ATV accident near the Columbia home of University of Missouri President Elson Floyd July 4, it was discovered he was supposed to be back at the halfway house at the time.

That led to Clemons being ordered to the Boone County Jail to serve out the rest of his sentence, and to his dismissal from the basketball program.

Clemons remains in the jail at Columbia until later this month. Through his attorney, Wally Bley, he declined The Star’s request for an interview Tuesday. But through Bley, he also denied all allegations of cheating and receiving improper benefits, other than those that Snyder acknowledged in court depositions and interviews.

Missouri officials declined to discuss specific allegations Tuesday, saying only that the school’s investigation is ongoing.

Snyder has acknowledged he gave Clemons two pairs of shoes and a pair of sweat pants, which he said “probably” will be ruled an NCAA violation.

According to Bunge, Clemons received much more.

She said she once drove to Snyder’s house in her GMC Jimmy and that Clemons began bringing out armloads of clothes.

Bunge also said Clemons often would come out of the Hearnes Center, home of the basketball program, with cash, allegations she first made in Boone County prosecutor Kevin Crane’s initial investigation into the assault case.

Snyder has denied that Clemons — or any of his players — received funds, and Bunge said she never saw an exchange of money.

“I took him to the Hearnes, and he would come out and have money,” she told The Star. “A hundred here, a hundred there. He’d get 50s. He’d get 20s. Anytime he needed money. If he needed money to pay his phone bill, that’s where he went.”

Bunge said she and Clemons would go to the mall and “he would spend hundreds of dollars on jump suits.”