Do me a favor: If I say model again in college basketball, buy a log of salami -- quite sure log is not the actual term, but I don't have a "Yes Chef" thesaurus -- call a Soprano and smack me upside the head with it. I'm not going unbeaten on my own picks in this college basketball season, but done with models as they are speaking Portuguese. Sure things normalize, but I eat ramen for pleasure. Don't want to have to for necessity. Or salami for that matter. Loyola has looked great; Troy pretty good, too, but a check-cashing game to travel. LMU, which I will always remember for that tourney run, has covered six of its past nine as a favorite.