St. Bonaventure fought back from a 10-point second-half deficit to defeat the men's basketball team in dramatic fashion last night, 94-93, at the Reilly Center in Olean, N.Y.

A victory would have given Penn State (9-7, 5-3) its 1,000th all-time win, but instead it registered loss No. 700. The Lions go for the millennium mark at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Rec Hall against St. Joseph's.

Rocky Llewellyn was credited with the game-winning basket with three seconds left after Penn State's Ed Fogell was charged with goaltending. The Lions then threw away the inbounds pass and were unable to regain possession.

Llewellyn led the Bonnies (10-6, 4-3) with 28 points, and Kyle Anglin added a career-high 24 off the bench. The Lions' Bruce Blake followed a career-high 30-point performance at Rhode Island Sunday with 24 last night. Tom Hovasse added 21 to move into second place on the all-time scoring list with 1,193 points.

Monroe Brown converted on a three-point play to give the Lions a 93-92 lead with 36 seconds to go. But the Bonnies, now 8-0 at home this year, held the ball until Llewellyn put up a shot with seven seconds on the clock. The ball clanked off the rim, but the senior grabbed the ball and took a follow-up shot. As the ball hung on the rim, Fogell knocked it away, and the referee called the violation with three ticks on the clock.

"St. Bonaventure played an inspired game," Coach Bruce Parkhill said in a post-game interview. "We made them take a tough shot at the end, and they stuck it in. Only the films will show us if it was goaltending, but they shouldn't have gotten another opportunity."

The Lions jumped out to an early 14-7 lead on seven baskets taken from within 10 feet. They had trouble getting back into the paint for most of the half, but held onto the lead.

A seven-point St. Bonaventure run in the last 2:30 of the half, capped off with a Llewellyn layup, cut the Penn State lead to two, 43-41. The Lions were holding for the last shot of the half, but a steal led to Llewellyn's easy bucket.

The Bonnies took a brief lead in the second half, 46-45, but the Lions scored the next nine points. They led 54-46 with 17:03 remaining. A Fogell slam with less than 13 minutes remaining increased the lead to a game-high 10, but the hosts refused to let up, cutting the deficit to three with 5:45 left.

St. Bonaventure Coach Ron DeCarli uses only six players, but Parkhill, who benefits from a deep bench, said the sextet did not tire easily, regardless of the tempo.

"I didn't think we'd wear them down physically," he said. "They have great players, and they're all in great shape. We were hoping to get the ball inside more, and we didn't do that in the first half."

The Lions built the advantage back to seven on a Hovasse basket with just under 4:30 remaining in the contest. The Bonnies, however, responded with a 9-0 spurt to take an 88-86 lead with two minutes left.

The teams split the next eight points, and the Lions found themselves with possession and 44 seconds on the clock.

Parkhill called a timeout, his squad trailing by two, to set up what many expected to be the game's last shot.

DeCarli sent his team out of the break in a 1-3-1 zone. Monroe Brown caught the Bonnies off-guard, making a shot and drawing a foul with 36 seconds left. The 93-92 Penn State lead lasted all of 33 seconds, as Llewellyn scored on the game's final field goal attempt. The loss marked the first time this season in which the Lions lost when leading at the half.

Parkhill mentioned what the team must do in order to win tomorrow night.

"We have to rebound (from this loss)," Parkhill said. "St. Joe's is playing better now than they were when we played them in Philadelphia. We have to play better defense and have better rebounding."

St. Bonaventure played the game with just seven scholarship players following the withdrawal from school of Dan Aloi and Myron Ray. The two reserves were suspended after being charged last week in the burglaries of several campus dormitory rooms.