There might not be much more of him to love

If Kevin Love is a one-year player, he has four games left in Pauley Pavilion.

UCLA is steamrollering the Pacific 10 Conference and Love is looking more confident at every turn, this time with a 26-point, 11-rebound outing in an 82-60 victory over what until Saturday was a hot Arizona team.

But the season is rapidly evaporating, and Love has noticed.

"I really can't believe it," he said. "It's funny you say that, I was thinking about that yesterday. I was thinking, 'Tomorrow, we're halfway through the Pac-10.' It's really crazy to me. But the second half is where it all counts. It's about how you finish, not how you start. So hopefully we'll win the Pac-10 outright and end up in San Antonio somehow."

There's a reasonable assumption, even within the UCLA coaching staff, that Love is a one-year player. If nobody left early, the Bruins would be over the scholarship limit for next season after signing four players, so they're expecting Love and/or Darren Collison to be gone.

"It's really going to depend on what the team does, but right now, I'm a Bruin," Love said. "We're going to sit down after the season and assess my options, but we have a great recruiting class coming in next year. I was talking to the coaches the other day. . . . If we have everybody back next year, it could be a scary team."

His father, Stan Love, seemed to add credence to the UCLA postseason's having an effect on his son's decision.

"It's hard to say," he said. "We'll see how we do in the Pac-10 tournament and then in the NCAA tournament."

It's part of an annual game that has become as fruitless a guessing game as who the No. 1-seeded teams will be: Will they stay or will they go?

Plenty of people thought Arizona's Chase Budinger would be one and done. Now he's a still-learning sophomore.

"I didn't think I was mature enough," Budinger said. "I didn't think I was ready on the court and off the court. You're still just a kid. I like college. I have no problems with college. I think it's fun. So I'm in no rush."

And who is ready for the NBA, anyway? It's general managers who decide.

Arizona interim Coach Kevin O'Neill -- a former NBA coach -- sees things a little differently than some. And although he complimented Love -- a potential NBA 'tweener at something less than the 6 feet 10 he is listed at -- it was guard Russell Westbrook who caught his eye.