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McCamey played college basketball at Illinois, where he competed from the 2007–08 season through the 2010–11 season under head coach Bruce Weber.

As a freshman in 2007–08, he suited up for an Illinois team that finished 16–19 overall and 5–13 in Big Ten play, with a runner-up finish in the Big Ten tournament highlighted as one of the season’s major notes.

In that 2007–08 season, McCamey appeared in 35 games and made 17 starts, averaging 27.3 minutes while scoring 8.2 points per game on 36.4% shooting from the field, 34.0% from three, and 62.7% at the foul line.

He averaged 2.9 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game as a freshman, with 0.5 steals, 0.1 blocks, and 2.5 turnovers per game, totaling 287 points, 101 rebounds, and 115 assists across 956 minutes.

On February 7, 2008, he scored a career-high 31 points against Indiana, a total noted as the team’s season high and the most by an Illinois freshman in 14 years.

During the 2008 Big Ten Tournament, he went 6-for-6 from three-point range against Purdue, setting a Big Ten tournament single-game record for made threes without a miss and tying an Illinois single-game record for three-point percentage with a perfect game on volume makes.

As a sophomore in 2008–09, he played for an Illinois team that went 24–10 overall and 11–7 in the Big Ten and reached the NCAA tournament (Round of 64).

In 2008–09, he appeared in 34 games and started 32, averaging 30.6 minutes while producing 11.5 points per game, 2.6 rebounds per game, and 4.6 assists per game.

He shot 41.1% from the field with 56 made threes (31.3% from three) and 76.4% at the line, finishing the season with 391 points, 90 rebounds, and 156 assists.

On February 12, 2009 at Northwestern, he scored 21 points and banked in the go-ahead jumper with 2.9 seconds left to win 60–59, with Trent Meacham also scoring 15 in that game and pouring in 12 of those points in the final five minutes of the comeback.

That season, he was selected as a third-team All-Big Ten pick by both the coaches and the media.

As a junior in 2009–10, Illinois finished 21–15 overall and 10–8 in Big Ten play and played in the NIT, where the team advanced to the quarterfinals before falling to Dayton.

McCamey played 36 games with 34 starts in 2009–10, averaging 34.5 minutes and posting 15.1 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 7.1 assists per game.

He shot 45.4% from the field, 34.1% from three, and 70.7% from the line, totaling 542 points, 129 rebounds, and 254 assists for the season.

His 7.06 assists per game led the Big Ten, and he became the first Illinois player to average over seven assists per game across a season, with 254 assists ranking as the fourth-highest single-season total in Big Ten history noted in his college-career summary.

On February 16, 2010 at Purdue, he recorded 16 assists to tie the Illinois single-game record, a mark also noted as tying the fourth-highest single-game total in Big Ten history, while also being cited as the most assists recorded by any player in the NCAA that season.

He was named co-Big Ten Player of the Week for February 8, 2010, and later earned first-team All-Big Ten honors from both the coaches and the media after the 2009–10 regular season.

On January 30, 2010, he scored 19 points and hit the game-winning basket at the buzzer in a 72–70 comeback win over Indiana, a game that also marked his 1,000th career point per his career notes.

As a senior in 2010–11, Illinois finished 20–14 overall and 9–9 in Big Ten play and reached the NCAA tournament, advancing to the Round of 32 before losing 73–59 to Kansas.

In 2010–11, McCamey appeared in 34 games and started 31, averaging 33.4 minutes while scoring 14.6 points per game with 3.4 rebounds per game and 6.1 assists per game.

He shot 45.2% from the field and 45.1% from three (74 made threes), with a 72.4% free-throw rate, and he scored in double figures 29 times with seven 20-point games, leading Illinois in scoring in 16 games per his season bio notes.

He was listed as a nominee for the Bob Cousy Award during the season, and his profile also noted he had been a first-team All-Big Ten honoree the prior year and ranked second nationally in assists in 2009–10 with the school-record 7.1 average.

His Illinois career totals finished at 139 games (114 starts), 1,718 points, 733 assists, 435 rebounds, and 236 made three-pointers, with the Kansas postgame notes listing him as second in school history in assists (733), fourth in three-pointers (236), and sixth in scoring (1,718).

Across his four seasons at Illinois, he averaged 12.4 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 5.3 assists per game while shooting 42.5% from the field, 36.1% from three, and 71.1% from the line.

His Illinois career overlapped with key Illini contributors such as Chester Frazier and Trent Meacham on the 2008–09 roster, and Mike Davis, Mike Tisdale, Brandon Paul, and D.J. Richardson across the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons, with McCamey serving as a captain in multiple years noted in the team-season summaries.