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The North Carolina Tar Heels are going to feel like they are playing more than just one team tonight at Ford Field. (AP Images)

There will be 72,000 people at Ford Field, and most will be rooting for the Michigan State Spartans.
North Carolina, the preseason No. 1 and top seed in the South Regional, and Michigan State, a less-hyped and more overlooked No. 2 seed out of the Midwest, are ready to fight it out for the National Championship.

The 7.5-point favored Tar Heels don't mind hostile environments.

The Heels have gone 67-14 away from home in the four years since Tyler Hansbrough arrived in 2005. Hansbrough has never lost to Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium and he is 5-2 in other road games in the state of North Carolina, 3-0 in Maui, 6-0 in Florida, and 1-0 at Ford Field.

The favorite is 4-0 ATS in the last four meetings between these schools.

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