On behalf of our four contributors, I would like to welcome you to Bucky's 5th Quarter, a new Wisconsin Badgers blog. We are excited to join the already impressive Big Ten Blogosphere. Most Big Ten schools have a number of blogs for fans to participate in, but sadly, Wisconsin is lacking those web sites. We hope you will find Bucky's 5th Quarter informative and entertaining.

At some point all of us have covered Wisconsin athletics for various media outlets, but we are also graduates of the University of Wisconsin and are proud to call ourselves Badgers. We hope to share our Badger knowledge and opinions, but most importantly, we want to hear your thoughts on all things Bucky. Please feel free to leave comments on any of our posts or send comments to comments@buckysfifthquarter.com

What to expect:

• Daily news, notes and predictions from across the Internet pertaining to the Badgers or the Big Ten
• Weekly opinion posts from each of our contributors
• Basketball previews and predictions, including thoughts from an opposing Blogger
• HOCKEY, HOCKEY, HOCKEY. We got a hockey guy. He's at all of the games and will bring you the best UW hockey coverage every weekend
• Once we have a solid base of regular readers, expect LIVE BLOGS on game days

You might by wondering to yourself, "How can you have five quarters?" Most of you know what the 5th Quarter is, but if you don't, here's more.