Camby Technically Perfect In Umass’ Suspended Win

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The argument’s over. Marcus Camby is worth a technical foul.

The sophomore center, who wasn’t even in the building when the first half was played, didn’t miss a shot and scored 12 points in the second half Friday as No. 8 Massachusetts beat Rutgers 77-62 in the completion of a game suspended by a student protest 24 days ago.

Camby missed three games earlier in the season with a strained right hamstring. The Feb. 7 game at Rutgers was one of them.

That game was suspended at halftime when 150 Rutgers students took the floor in protest of racially inflammatory statements by the school president in a November speech.

In order for Camby to play in the completion at the Spectrum in front of 400 people, Massachusetts (23-4, 13-3 Atlantic 10) had to be assessed the technical foul.

“I think John made the right decision,” Rutgers coach Bob Wenzel said of UMass coach John Calipari’s decision to play Camby.

The two points Rutgers (12-14, 7-9) got on the technical with 16:53 to play seemed well worth it for UMass, which pulled away down the stretch, a 17-0 run opening a 76-55 lead.