NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden has been a second home to St. John’s basketball teams over the last eight decades.

This current team has turned the building at 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue into a house of horrors for highly ranked teams.

The latest of the Red Storm’s five wins over teams regarded as the best in the country was a heart-stopping, come-from-behind thriller over No. 4 Pittsburgh that has the players thinking of joining the ranks of the ranked themselves.

It’s been just over a decade since St. John’s was in The Associated Press poll.

Dwight Hardy’s underhanded flip with 1.2 seconds left Saturday gave the Red Storm a 60-59 victory, their fifth this season over a team that spent time in the top 10 — and all of them have been at Madison Square Garden.

Hardy, who finished with 19 points, started his drive near midcourt, went past Gilbert Brown twice as he defended him on the right side of the court. He went to the baseline and underhanded the ball up and over the rim to give the Red Storm (17-9, 9-5 Big East) another highly ranked victim in Madison Square Garden.

“I knew the ball was going to be in my hands during the timeout,” said Hardy, who has scored over 30 points twice in the last five games.