Off the cuff: Coach Hubert Davis said he's been telling his Tar Heels that he wants them to play with more emotion, more passion, more enthusiasm.

He got that and more against The Citadel. Carolina players moved the ball well on offense and, after getting burned a few times in the paint, buckled down on defense until a scoring frenzy with subs on the floor the last few minutes of the game.

The Heels also shot the ball well for a change, hitting 54.5 percent in the second half, including eight of 16 from beyond the arc. Carolina finished the game shooting 49.2 percent.

"We hadn't shot the ball well at all (this year) and I think we're a good shooting team," Coach Davis said.

The Tar Heels were only two of nine from three to start the game but then hit five of six threes the rest of the first half to pull away from the Bulldogs.

While 13 different Tar Heels scored, seven of them also hit three-point shots. Carolina finished the game with 15 threes on 31 attempts.

Caleb Love looked like a different person. Yeah, he still led the team in scoring but he only needed 10 shots to do it and he led the team in assists with six. Plus, he didn't turn the ball over once.

One person who had a bad game was female referee Jenna Reneau. I say "female referee" because that's what she is. She started her full-time career refereeing the NBA's G League. NBA officiating is one rung above Championship Wrestling officials. In the NBA, traveling, three seconds, palming basically don't exist and the game's are so physical and fast-paced that you can just pick a spot to call something as there are fouls almost constantly.

She very well may be a good official but when you are a woman officiating a men's basketball game you have to be really good or people are going to think you got the job for politically correctness reasons.

She was not really good. She was really bad. Her calls seemed like guesses and she guessed wrong a number of times. I found it interesting that the ESPN TV broadcast did not show the replay on a controversial out of bounds call against Leaky Black, who appeared to be fouled on the play. Those in the building got to see a replay that also showed that the ball was off the Bulldogs. But Reneau not only didn't call a foul, she wrongly awarded the ball to The Citadel.

She made a phantom traveling call - something I'm sure she didn't call much in the NBA. Even the TV announcers said she made the wrong block/charge call - which also went against Carolina.

The calls didn't all go The Citadel's way though as one of their players picked up a foul for I still don't know what.

There was one play where she was in great position to make the out of bounds call but she somehow lost it and had to ask another official, who also didn't know. She had a 50-50 chance and she still got it wrong.

She officiated youth games for years and has been doing college and NBA games for the last few years. Nearly unheard of, she was asked to do college games before she officiated her first high school game. I'd love to see how she graded out in this game. If ACC administrators want good officials instead of making social statements, she may be doing fewer ACC contests.

Good refs, of any sex, are indispensable. Bad refs, of any sex, aren't.