Loyola, Maryland head coach Orlando G.G. Smith reacts during the first half of Loyola's 76-66 loss to Connecticut in this photo from Nov. 26, 2013, in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith will lead the Greyhounds against Kansas University on Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse.

Loyola University Maryland will bring a 1-5 record to town for Tuesday’s 7 p.m. game against Kansas University.

The Greyhounds have defeated UMBC (76-57) and lost to Tennessee State (86-71), LIU Brooklyn (71-68), St. Bonaventure (94-82), Stony Brook (76-63) and Siena (90-82, OT).

Loyola was picked to finish seventh of 10 teams in the Patriot League in a preseason poll of conference coaches. Lehigh was tapped first, followed by Bucknell, Boston, Army, American, Lafayette, Loyola, Holy Cross, Colgate and Navy.

Loyola is led by third-year coach G.G. Smith, 38, son of Texas Tech coach Tubby Smith. His Greyhounds went 11-19 each of the last two years.

“With this being my third year as head coach, I think we’ve done a good job as a staff of just laying down the foundation and the philosophy of where we want this program to go,” Smith said on Glenn Clark Radio as reported by pressboxonline.com.

“It is a big change coming from the MAAC, and this is year three (in the Patriot League), so I think we have a better idea of where we want to go and our vision. We’re right there. We just have to figure out a way to get over the hump. This is a big year for our program,” Smith added.

Leading scorers are Jarred Jones (6-foot-7 junior) and Tyler Hubbard (6-2 senior), who average 16.8 and 16.5 ppg.

Smith worked at Loyola for six seasons as an assistant under former coach Jimmy Patsos. He was a three-year starter at guard at Georgia. He’s also worked as an assistant at Johns Hopkins, Armstrong Atlantic State, Tennessee Tech and Kentucky as grad assistant on his dad’s staff.

About that offense: KU (4-1) averaged 95 points in wins over Chaminade, UCLA and Vanderbilt at last week’s Maui Invitational.

The Jayhawks’ 123-points versus Chaminade were most points in a game by a KU team in the 13-year Bill Self era and sixth most points in school history.

In addition, KU’s two-game total of 215 points (123 vs. Chaminade; 92 vs. UCLA) were most points in consecutive games in the Self era.

KU scored 112 versus Tennessee Tech and 98 against Alcorn State for a total of 210 during the 2009-10 season. KU went 33-3 overall and 15-1 in the Big 12 that year, losing in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The two-game total of 215 was most overall back-to-back since Roy Williams’ Jayhawks scored 218 points (104 against Oklahoma State and 114 versus Colorado) in the 1996-97 season. That KU team went 34-2 overall and 15-1 in the Big 12, losing in the Sweet 16.

“We are going to get our shots up because we are playing fast, an up-tempo pace,” said sophomore guard Devonté Graham, who is averaging 10.6 ppg off 38.3 percent shooting with 19 assists to just four turnovers. Frank Mason III is averaging 13.0 ppg off 42.0 percent shooting with 29 assists to six turnovers. Graham has made nine of 22 threes and Mason four of 12. “We’ve got to get more inside touches I feel,” Graham added.

Noted coach Bill Self: “I think this is by far one of the better shooting teams we’ve had (51.3 percent overall through five games; 46.8 from three). That doesn’t mean we’re always going to make shots. I think we can score points in a hurry. I think we can run bad offense and come away with points. A lot of years we haven’t been able to do that.”

Stallings’ son plays baseball: Former KU assistant basketball coach/current Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings’ son, Jacob, is a 25-year-old catcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.

The 6-5, 215-pounder, who attended University of North Carolina, hit .275 with three homers and 32 RBIs last season for Class AA Altoona. He had a .313 on-base percentage.

Stallings was a seventh-round draft pick of the Pirates in the 2012 MLB Draft. He was selected by Cincinnati in the 42nd round after his junior year, but had pretty much made it clear he would return to UNC for his senior campaign.

Of Stallings, Baseball America’s John Perrotto said: “He doesn’t overwhelm with tools, but he has a great baseball IQ. He’s the type of guy who eventually gets to the majors, if perhaps only for a cup of coffee — and likely becomes a manager once his playing days are over.”