Enoch Cheeks scored 20 points to lead Dayton to an 85-67 victory 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 in the tournament.

A day after scoring a career-best 20 points against Colorado, Liam McNeeley went scoreless in a 9-0 shooting loss to the Flyers.

Karaban hit a 3-pointer that gave UConn a 30-27 lead with 4:34 left before halftime, but Dayton ended the first half with a 15-4 run to take a 41-34 halftime lead .

Takeaways

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

Dayton: The Flyers made 27 of 30 free throws and shot better than 47% from behind the arc (8 of 17). Overall they achieved 25 out of 50 points.

Key moment

UConn got within 52-49 with 11:20 left in the second half after a Solo Ball basket in transition, but Dayton created some distance with Alexander’s three-point play and extended the lead back to six points with 10:34 to play .

Key statistics

Dayton finished with a plus-16 rebounding margin, including a 32-17 advantage on the defensive end.

Next

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