It had all the makings of the biggest battle of the season.
The country's top team, with a 25-game win streak on the line, hosted the squad it bested in the Final Four last season. One team had much to lose and the other was going for restitution.
In Sunday's battle between good and better, the No. 7 MSU field hockey team seemed anything but tough and the sun set in North Carolina the same way it had risen that morning -
