It is WAB not WOB

Let’s get something straight. If WAB is going to be the all-powerful NCAA tournament metric — and we should all hope it is — let’s at least agree on the pronunciation. People seem to be increasingly split on whether it’s WAB or WOB, the latter being appropriate if the term was invented in Madrid or alternatively, you just want to sound extra pretentious. But WOB would be inconsistent with anything else in the English language.

For instance:

If you have great core strength, you do not have rock hard OBS

After a night out in Manhattan, you do not hail a taxi COB

If you scored a touchdown in the Super Bowl in 2012, you did not celebrate by DOBbing

Chris Webber did not play for the FOB Five

If you are a chatty person, you do not have the gift of GOB

If you need treatment for a drug addiction, you do not go to reHOB and the hockey team in Montreal is not called the HOBs

A short powerful punch in boxing is not a JOB

A scientist does not work in a LOB

If you catch a burglar in the act, you didn’t NOB them

If you need to indent something, you don’t use the TOB key

It could not be more clear.