This is a little old, but Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution gives us his predictions of the top college hoops teams next year. UCLA is at #17, and is the third highest ranked team from the Pac-10. His comments about the Bruins:

The Bruins returned to the NCAA tournament behind freshman point guard Jordan Farmar. There are other sophomores-to-be ready to mature along with him. Give Ben Howland another year or so and he'll be in the top 10.

This sounds reasonable to me - but if we somehow get above-average play on the inside, we could be even better.