Googins was hired at Cincinnati on June 6, 2017, and resigned in May 2023 following the conclusion of the Bearcats' 2023 season, shortly after multiple assistants were fired for failing to report a sports gambling scandal.
Googins is an alumnus of Ohio Wesleyan University, where he played baseball for the Battling Bishops.
[1] After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan in 1992, Googins became an assistant at Indiana under head coach Bob Morgan.
In 2013, Charles Leesman, who played for Xavier from 2006 to 2008, became Googins's first player to appear in Major League Baseball when he debuted for the Chicago White Sox.
In the tournament itself, the fourth-seeded Musketeers dropped their opener to top-seeded Creighton, then won three straight games to win the championship and the conference's automatic bid.
At the Nashville Regional, Xavier again went 1–2, losing games against Vanderbilt and Oregon but eliminating third-seeded Clemson.
[5][8][9][10] On May 31, 2023, Googins resigned in the wake of multiple assistants being fired for failing to report an NCAA violation related to sports gambling.
Conference tournament champion Googins is married to a former Xavier volleyball player and has three children, Ellie, Tommy, and Charlie.