ADAMS TWP — Robby Carmody's unofficial basketball barnstorming tour has taken him all across the United States.

As a member of the Ohio Basketball Club 15U team, the 6-foot-4 Mars sophomore stop this weekend was at the Adidas Invitational in Indianapolis.

Earlier in the year, Carmody went to Dallas and Atlanta. Still coming up in the last few weeks of July are trips to Las Vegas and Cincinnati.

“I'm trying to learn a lot to bring back to high school,” Carmody said. “There's a lot of life lessons to learn from this. Seeing how some of the kids live and just how I live, I'm learning how to be grateful.”

OBC is an AAU basketball team that has a number of alumni who ended up playing college basketball.

T.J. McConnell, who signed with the Philadelphia 76ers this offseason, played for OBC while he was at Chartiers Valley High School.

McConnell started at Duquesne before transferring to the University of Arizona.

Carmody appreciates the exposure he's getting and has drawn interest from Dayton University, Wake Forest, Princeton, Columbia and Notre Dame.

Carmody had a successful first season at Mars, averaging 13.3 points per game, helping the Planets advance to the PIAA Class AAA quarterfinals for the first time in program history.

The Planets also set a program record for victories, finishing with a 26-3 record.

Carmody tried out for the Ohio Basketball Club last winter and got a call from its coach, Mike Duncan, who invited him to join the team in January.

“The exposure Mike can help us get changed a lot for me,” Carmody said. “If I didn't play for them, I might not see this exposure until between my junior and senior year.”

Robby's dad, Rob Carmody, who is the head coach at Mars, has enjoyed the summer basketball experience.

“To be honest, I'm a basketball junky and get excited to go to these things,” Rob said. “I like to see the talent level and see things that are being done. Watching him play games is fun, but I like watching the drill stuff to see what other people are doing.”

They've seen a wide range of personalities, players and different types of drills.

In Dallas, one team featured a 7-3 player who was 15.

Another team featured the state player of the year from Alaska, 6-7 forward Kamaka Hepa.

That's what Rob hopes his son takes away from this experience.

“I was talking to (Hepa's) dad and he told me they take three weeks off to go whaling,” Rob Carmody said. “How many times do you hear about that except into a movie? There's a lot of life experience stuff that is more important than basketball.”

On the basketball court, Robby Carmody has been working on doing things without the ball.

Playing on a team with kids from the Cleveland and Cincinnati areas, he doesn't need to do much scoring.

He's learning how to set screens and play without the ball. Preparing for the games isn't an option, because there's no scouting reports.

“You just have to go in with a killer mindest,” Robby said. “You don't know how a team is going to be, if they are going to be really good or bad.”

These camps consist of skill work and playing four or five games. Teams go through pool and bracket play.

During a game, Rob Carmody saw a group of college coaches at the event.

“At games today, saw coaches from West Virginia, Ohio State, Purdue, Duquesne, Xavier and Wake Forest are watching kids,” Rob said. “They aren't going to come to an open gym in Mars to see that. Robby's been fortunate, but he's worked hard to have these opportunities.”