Columbia, Mo. ? Former Missouri guard Ricky Clemons renewed in a television interview his claim of receiving money while playing basketball for the Tigers.

“I never got more than $500 at a time. I never kept up with it. I just received the money,” Clemons told interviewer James Brown on HBO’s “Real Sports” in a February interview, shown Tuesday night on the cable network.

“Did you ask for money or was it just being given to you?” Brown asked.

“It was just being given to me. Sometimes in cash, but if it was something major that had to be paid for — go get a money order. You can’t trace that,” said Clemons, who was kicked out of the Tigers’ program last year after a single season.

Missouri’s coaches and players have denied giving Clemons money. The NCAA is investigating the Missouri basketball program, and the university is conducting its own investigation in cooperation with the NCAA.

Clemons previously alleged receiving money by check. His former girlfriend, Jessica Bunge, also has asserted that Clemons received money during stops at the Hearnes Center, Missouri’s home arena.

Clemons was interviewed Feb. 21 in Raleigh, N.C., and Brown asked him: “Were you paid by coaches at the University of Missouri?”

Clemons replied: “Yes.”