Just a few days before Butler is set to start its first season under new head coach Brandon Miller, the Bulldogs lost one of their veterans.
Junior forward Andrew Smeathers is leaving the program, the school announced on Monday.
Smeathers, a 6-foot-6 Indiana native, plans to seek a medical redshirt year before transferring to another school. He totaled eight points in Butler's two exhibition games last week, after scoring 63 points and grabbing 20 rebounds in his two years with the Bulldogs.