Roy Williams, Danny Manning, Leonard Hamilton turn out to watch Vernon Carey, Cole Anthony and Moses Brown at City of Palms

By DAVID DORSEY

FORT MYERS, Fla. —  Two sons of retired professional athletes, each considered a top-five high school basketball player in the junior class, led their teams in head-to-head competition in the City of Palms Classic on Tuesday.

The big man’s team won, and he sent the higher-ranked, higher-hyped, Briarwood (N.Y.) Archbishop Molloy, to its Fort Myers, Fla., hotel with the goal of regrouping.

Molloy junior point guard Cole Anthony, son of former NBA point guard Greg Anthony, and 7-foot-2 senior teammate Moses Brown, one of the best guard-post combinations in the nation, combined for 35 points but lost 75-64 to Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) University School in the Classic’s first round at Florida SouthWestern State College’s Suncoast Credit Union Arena.

University School’s Vernon Carey Jr., the 6-9, 245-pound son of former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Vernon Carey Sr., scored a game-high 23 points and grabbed eight rebounds in leading his team to victory while handing Molloy (2-1) its first loss of the season.