Milwaukee ? Devin Harris and his teammates aren’t worried. The Big Ten Conference’s player of the year knows all about bouncing back from a quiet game.

On Jan. 21, Wisconsin’s star point guard was held to a season-low five points in a win over Michigan.

He scored 30, 29 and 38 points in his next three games, led the 10th-ranked Badgers to their first Big Ten tournament title and became the first Wisconsin player in more than 50 years to win conference player-of-the-year honors.

“I didn’t do anything differently. Shots just began to fall,” said Harris, who averaged 22.7 points after being hounded by the Wolverines. “I guess my aggressive level increased a bit.”

He’ll be looking to make a similar recovery today when the sixth-seeded Badgers (25-6) face ninth-ranked and third-seeded Pittsburgh (30-4) in the East Rutherford Regional.

Harris was held scoreless for the first 29 minutes by Richmond on Friday before finishing with 11 points and leading the Badgers’ 76-64 comeback.

“Great players always bounce back,” injured teammate Alando Tucker said Saturday. “He’s proven it this year. You can’t get down on yourself. Maybe you had a bad half or things didn’t go your way, you just have to look forward to what’s coming up.”

And that’s a stingy 30-4 Pitt team that already has chafed at having to play what amounts to a road game in Milwaukee, a 90-minute drive up Interstate 94 from the Madison campus and the hometown of three Badgers starters and a key reserve.

The Badgers credited the pro-Wisconsin crowd for helping them survive an upset bid by Richmond in the opener.

Harris even suggested the Badgers might not have been able to erase a 13-point second-half deficit anywhere other than the Bradley Center, where they were energized by the earsplitting crowd of 18,000-plus.

Boston College (24-9), the sixth seed in the St. Louis Regional, is counting on Badgers fans to cheer them on against No. 3 seed Georgia Tech (24-9) in the first game today, and not just because of the natural tendency of neutral crowds to back the underdog.

“We’re actually staying in the same hotel with Wisconsin, so there’s a lot of Wisconsin fans and family staying there,” Eagles center Uka Agbai said. “They were excited for us after we won the game yesterday, so hopefully they’ll come to the game and root for us, too.”