Chapel Hill, NC (Sports Network) - John Henson scored 21 points, as No. 5 North Carolina breezed past Monmouth, 102-65, on Sunday. Harrison Barnes added 18 points, P.J. Hairston had 16 and Reggie Bullock finished with 11 for the Tar Heels (13-2), who have won seven straight games -- all at home. Andrew Nicholas scored a game-high 22 points to pace the Hawks (2-12), while Jesse Steele added 17 points and nine assists. Chapel Hill has been kind to the Tar Heels of late. They have not faltered during their current nine-game homestand, which continues Saturday against Boston College in the ACC opener and concludes January 10 versus Miami- Florida. In fact, Sundays victory was UNCs 26th in a row at home -- a Smith Center record. "Its been a long stretch here of these non-conference games at home," said Tar Heels coach Roy Williams. "Now were getting ready to start our conference regular season, and our play is going to have to go up a level." The Hawks, losers of four straight, did not prove a threat to the streak. UNC shot 54.4 percent from the field and held a sizeable 55-26 advantage on the glass. Tyler Zeller and James Michael McAdoo bolstered the strong interior effort, both scoring eight points to go with 11 and 10 rebounds, respectively. The Tar Heels took a commanding 57-26 lead into the break and firmly established their dominance down low, outscoring the Hawks 42-18 in the paint and 20-5 in second chance points. UNC has won 56 in a row against non-conference opponents at the Smith Center. "Im proud of my kids," said Monmouth coach King Rice. "My kids really battled today. As I told them, guys, we fought as hard as we could, they are just better than us." North Carolinas 26 straight home wins are a Smith Center record, but the overall UNC home winning streak mark stands at 32 games. 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This is the year we have to figure out how serious we are about having a stadium." Savage said city council voted two years ago to contribute $20 million toward construction of a 20,000-seat stadium for the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup of soccer, but there werent enough partners to make the proposal a reality. At the time, the provincial government said it wasnt interested in contributing, which left private investors reluctant to sign on. "There is an atmosphere in this city that says we can do some things that we couldnt do before," Savage said. "In terms of a stadium, the private sector will always say, Wheres government on this? " Cohon said establishing a CFL team in Halifax is part of the leagues long-term plan. But he declined to name any of the national or local business leaders that he and the mayor are talking to. "Its Day 1, guys," he said. "Its our first meeting." The commissioner repeatedly pointed to the new CFL franchise in Ottawa, the RedBlacks, as a potential model for Halifax. But he stressed that the talks that led to that teams rebirth took seven years to come to fruition.dddddddddddd Cohon said the new, mixed-use stadium in Ottawa, the result of a public-private partnership, features a large retail space, condominiums, parkland and office space. The total cost for the project was $290 million, with $173 million coming from the city, the projects website says. "We have a proven model that is working right now in Ottawa," Cohon said. "We have to think big. Dont just think about CFL. Think about this as a catalyst for a bigger opportunity." No one in the sports community was expecting a big announcement Monday, considering Cohon had said last week the Halifax meetings were just exploratory. Still, Cohon suggested that Halifax is the next logical location for a CFL franchise, even though there has been significant interest expressed in Moncton. "I think the challenge in Moncton, its a bit of a smaller community with a smaller business community," he said. CFL teams last played an exhibition game in Halifax in 2005, and there have been three Touchdown Atlantic games in Moncton. Cohon said all CFL teams except one is either making a profit or breaking even. Staying in the black requires annual revenue between $17 million and $20 million, he said. Despite Cohons optimism, plans to build a stadium in Halifax have gone off the rails three times in the past 30 years. In the mid-1980s, financing fell through for a 30,000-seat stadium that was supposed to be used by a CFL team called the Atlantic Schooners. In March 2007, the city and the province pulled out of a bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games when cost estimates jumped from $785 million to almost $1.7 billion. 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