LAHAINA, Hawaii – – Enoch Cheeks scored 20 points to lead Dayton to an 85-67 win over No. 2 UConn in the seventh-place game of the Maui Invitational on Wednesday night.

The Flyers (6-2) got 18 points from Nate Santos, 16 from Posh Alexander and 15 from Zed Key, who also led the team with nine rebounds.

Cheeks shot 8 of 12 from the field, including 3 of 5 from 3-point range.

Alex Karaban made four of his team’s eight 3-pointers and scored 15 of his team-high 21 points in the first half to lead the Huskies (4-3), who lost all three games they played in the tournament.

A day after scoring a career-best 20 points against Colorado, Liam McNeeley remained scoreless on 0-for-9 shooting against the Flyers.

Karaban hit a 3-pointer that put UConn ahead 30-27 with 4:34 left before halftime, but Dayton closed the first half on a 15-4 run to take a 41-34 lead during the rest.

Takeaways

UConn: All three of the Huskies’ losses on Maui were against unranked teams. They dropped their first two games – against Memphis on Monday and Colorado on Tuesday – by a combined three points.

Dayton: The Flyers made 27 of 30 free throws and shot better than 47% from behind the arc (8 of 17). They went 25 of 50 from the field overall.

Key moment

UConn pulled within 52-49 on Solo Ball’s bucket in transition at the 11:20 mark of the second half, but Dayton found some separation with Alexander’s three-point play, putting it back to a six-point lead with 10:34 to play . .

Key stat

Dayton finished with a plus-16 in rebound margin, including a 32-17 edge on the defensive glass.

Next

UConn hosts Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday, while Dayton hosts Western Michigan on Tuesday night.

——

Receive poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 all season long. Sign up here. AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball.