COLLEGE BASKETBALL : Princeton No Match for UMass

Marcus Camby scored a season-high 30 points to lead fifth-ranked Massachusetts to an 88-67 victory over Princeton on Wednesday night at Amherst, Mass.

The 6-foot-11 Camby was too much for the defense of the smaller Tigers. And the slowdown tactics that Princeton Coach Pete Carril uses to stay close to teams with more talent didn’t work.

Princeton (3-4) gave up more than 59 points for the first time this season.

“You don’t expect a Princeton team to beat the No. 5 team in the country, do you?” Carril said. “That’s like our football team going in to play Florida State.”

Rick Hielscher led Princeton with 20 points.

Camby missed his career high by two points. He had 18 in the second half, including eight in a 14-3 run that gave the Minutemen (4-1) a 64-44 lead with 10:40 to play.

“Camby was a man tonight,” Massachusetts Coach John Calipari said. “Obviously, they couldn’t guard him. When we figured that out, we just kept going to him.”

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No. 14 Georgia Tech 86, Georgia 78--James Forrest scored eight of his 26 points in a span of 2:14 at Atlanta to help the Yellow Jackets hold off the Bulldogs, who had cut a 23-point deficit to one point.

Charles Claxton’s second consecutive three-point play cut Georgia Tech’s lead to 69-68 with 5:01 remaining before Forrest started a 10-2 Yellow Jacket spurt with 4:30 remaining.

“I said to myself, ‘No way this will be a blowout,’ even though I wanted one,” Georgia Tech Coach Bobby Cremins said. “We hung on.”

Travis Best had 21 points, eight assists and three steals for the Yellow Jackets (6-0).

Shandon Anderson led Georgia (5-1) with 21 points and eight rebounds.

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No. 20 Wisconsin 90, Wisconsin Milwaukee 64--Michael Finley scored 23 points to lead the Badgers at Madison, Wis.

Rashard Griffith added 18 points and 14 rebounds for Wisconsin (5-1).

Wisconsin Milwaukee (0-7) missed its first eight shots, fell behind, 12-0, and never again got closer than eight points.