LAHAINA, Hawaii — If you thought you might’ve heard a tremor across the Pacific Ocean in the middle of the night, you were right. 

UConn’s reign of dominance atop college basketball is no more. An earthquake has hit college basketball. The most dominant program has lost its powers. The program that took one nonconference loss the past two seasons managed to TRIPLE that number in three days’ time at the Maui Invitational. It’s the most stunning development in all of American sports this month … and maybe in the past six months. 

“Right now we’re a shell of who we’ve been,” Dan Hurley said after his No. 2 Huskies were beaten 85-67 by Dayton on Wednesday night in Maui in the seventh place game of the tourney. 

“The burden of wearing a uniform after back-to-backs, right now, looks like it’s weighing heavy on the group,” Hurley said. 

The 18-point differential is UConn’s worst loss to a nonconference opponent since 2018,...