Wright State guard Reggie Arceneaux left Fifth Third Arena on Saturday with a new fan: Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin.

Cronin’s 11th-ranked Bearcats improved to 12-0 by pulling away from the Raiders in the last 15 minutes for a 68-58 victory, but they learned their pressure defense is not unbeatable, not when a player like Arceneaux is on top of his game.

Wright State’s 5-foot-9 sophomore point guard committed just 3 turnovers in the game and only 1 in the first half as the Raiders built a 28-22 lead.

“It was a really hard team to play with our style because you can’t press them,” Cronin said. “They’re too well-coached and have too quick of a point guard. We couldn’t even trap him with two guys. I might have been able to run three at him, and I don’t know if we would have trapped him. The guy’s a one-man press break.”

Wright State coach Billy Donlon said Arceneaux was the best player on the floor in the first 20 minutes. Arceneaux had a rough shooting day, making 2-of-12 shots for 6 points, but he controlled the game with his patience in the first half.

“I was just using my speed to the best of my ability,” Arceneaux said. “Against pressure, you make them play at your pace. You don’t speed up. You play under control.”

Double-double: Jerran Young followed up his season-high 19-point performance against Miami with a double-double: 14 points and 10 rebounds.

It’s Wright State’s first double-double in almost three years. Cory Cooperwood had a double-double (19 points, 12 rebounds) against Loyola on Jan. 30, 2010.

Young also hit 2-of-4 3-pointers. Entering the game, he was 0-of-4 from long range for the season.

“I thought it was a good game for him,” Donlon said. “When we went small at the 5 and didn’t play Tavares, they chose to put (Justin) Jackson on J.T. Yoho, who’s the better shooter, and they put their bigger 5 man on Jerran. He could drive against him, and that’s what he did. We probably went away from that too much in the second half. Then he made a couple of 3s, which is good to see. Now on scouting reports, you can’t just get close to him and treat him as a driver.”

Like Donlon, Young wasn’t treating this as a moral victory, even though the Raiders had the Bearcats in their biggest hole of the season in the first minute of the second half, 30-22.

“It’s a tough loss,” Young said. “They’re human, just like we are. Ranking’s don’t really mean nothing.”

Yoho’s performance: Freshman J.T. Yoho scored in double figures in the first four games of the season, but hadn’t scored more than 9 in the last seven games. He broke that streak with 13 against Cincinnati.

Next game: Wright State (8-4) hosts Division III Mount St. Joseph (5-5) at 2 p.m. Sunday.