The 3 plays in sports everybody will be talking about today

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March 21, 2017 1:31 PM

Tuesday's top plays are the Stephen Curry 3-pointer, the UT-Arlington underhanded pass, and the Kia Nurse heat check.

Good morning! Here are the plays everybody will be talking about on Tuesday:

The Thunder-Warriors scuffle and Stephen Curry dagger. Near the end of the first half in the latest installment of the Thunder-Warriors rivalry, Curry and Thunder guard Semaj Christon got into a shoving match over position on a jump ball. According to some former NBA players working the game for TNT, Curry broke an unwritten rule by trying to take a spot already established by Christon. They speculated that it was an intentional move out of disrespect, leading the two teams to enter a shoving match and have to be separated. Curry got the last laugh on the subsequent jump ball when Klay Thompson hit him deep down the court and Curry drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer before sprinting to the locker room (read more here).

The UT Arlington half-court, underhanded assist. UT Arlington won a second-round game in the NIT, 85-69 over Akron. The win was marked by several snazzy passes and subsequent dunks or 3-pointers. None were snazzier than this underhanded pass from midcourt and past four defenders by Erick Neal.

The Kia Nurse heat check. UConn keeps rolling, winning its 108th game in a row with a 30-point win over Syracuse in the second round of the women's NCAA tournament. Only eight of UConn's 94 points came in the fourth quarter. That's because Nurse did all of her damage in the first three quarters. She scored 29 points including nine 3-pointers. She had 26 points in the first half alone, going 8-for-10 from 3-point range. Her final points came early in the third quarter when she banked in a three. Even she seemed amazed by her own heat check.

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