The Bisons are in the Dominican Republic for an exhibition tour through August 16. But they’ll be doing more than playing basketball. The trip is also a mission to help the underprivileged in this Caribbean nation, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

Oklahoma Christian University head basketball coach Dan Hays is just two wins away from becoming the all-time winningest basketball coach in Oklahoma history, KOCO-TV reports.

At Rochester College in Michigan, longtime head basketball coach Garth Pleasant is retiring. His successor has a familiar name. It’s his son Klint Pleasant, a former head coach at Abilene Christian University in Texas. Klint Pleasant isn’t just following his father on the basketball court. He also preaches at the Lake Orion Church of Christ, like his father did.

It’s taken John Copeland 30 years to amass 444 wins on the basketball court. In the span of two days this past weekend, he won six figures in the rodeo ring. Copeland, the longtime men’s basketball coach at Lubbock Christian University, won the No. 10 amateur division at the World Series of Team Roping on Saturday in Las Vegas. The title came with a check for $200,000, which he split with his partner.

The winningest high school basketball coach in U.S. history is a faithful member of the Church of Christ. Coach Leta Andrews of Granbury High School in Texas earned her historic win No. 1,334 this week.

Garth Pleasant recently earned his 700th career victory as men’s basketball coach at Rochester College, a school that plays home games at area high schools because it doesn’t have its own arena, the Detroit Free Press reported. Pleasant, a 2008 inductee in the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan Hall of Fame, plans to retire after this season. He has been coaching at his alma mater, formerly Michigan Christian College, since 1979.

Villanova’s Scottie Reynolds, a consensus first-team all-American who was bypassed in last week’s NBA draft, will play for the Phoenix Suns’ summer-league team, his agent, Lee Melchionni, confirmed via e-mail to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Christian Chronicle featured Reynolds, who was active with the King of Prussia Church of Christ, near the Villanova campus in a Philadelphia suburb, in a Page 1 story in the April issue.