The basketball season is one week away and we have one starter! I don’t know how much more news I’ll be able to break, though. Head coach Glen Miller is going to wait until the last possible second to divulge his final starting lineup.

“It’ll probably be about 20 minutes before the Drexel game when I have to,” Miller joked.

“The only player at this point who definitely should be starting is Brian [Grandieri]. … At this point last year it was a much easier situation with [Ibrahim Jaaber, Mark Zoller and Stephen Danley], it was clear that they should be starting.”

With Grandieri a starter, there are 15 healthy bodies competing for four spots on the Palestra floor a week from tonight, and as of now that could be filled by anyone.

“We’re trying to find out, we don’t have those answers right now,” Miller said. “Just like the Ivy League has a lot of parity with its teams, I think from top to bottom our team has a lot of parity. The starting five, the nine- or 10-man rotation, we’re sorting those things out right now and we’re sorting them out in practice, through our scrimmages and watching a lot of film.

“In making evaluations it’s difficult to rule anybody out, but at the same time it’s difficult to make decisive decisions at this point of who should start and who should be part of that rotation.”

And even when he does compile the final starting five, that will be written in pencil.

Last year Kevin Egee got five minutes in the season opener, yet started the Ivy opener against Cornell two months later.

“The starting lineup you see Friday night against Drexel might not be the same one you see Sunday at Loyola,’ Miller said. “I think it’s going to be one of those years where our strength is going to be in numbers, and I don’t want to bury anyone on the team. You want to keep an environment where everybody is working hard because they know there’s an opportunity.”