Darrious Curry was in possession of a signed National Letter-of-Intent April 12 to play basketball at the University of Texas-El Paso. A week later, he was on the phone with West Virginia and talking about playing with the Mountaineers. The next day, Bob Huggins and assistant Erik Martin were in Curry’s Houston high school watching Curry play. Curry was in Morgantown three days later. Yesterday he signed a NLI to play for the Mountaineers beginning next fall.

“We liked what we saw,” Martin said. “He’s a long kid with long arms and the kind of body that’s put together like John Flowers’. He can run and really shoot the heck out of the ball. He’s a lefty with good bounce and we needed a wing who if nothing else could score for us.”

Out of that meeting, Huggins and Martin convinced Curry to make a visit to campus over the weekend.

“Things happen kind of fast, especially if both parties have a mutual interest,” Martin said. “Once he got out of the letter he found out we were interested. Most people already know us. West Virginia’s the flavor of the month. Everybody likes us in recruiting.”

Confession: I’d never heard of the kid before yesterday — and I wasn’t alone. Not that that means anything, but we media covering the team — or recruiting — usually have an idea who’s involved. Then again, this did happen pretty fast so there maybe wasn’t enough time for a buzz to build.

I’m still gathering some information about the lad. I haven’t seen a story that quotes him about leaving UTEP, looking for other schools or picking WVU. Contact information is hard to obtain. There is no mention of him on YouTube or other places you might get a look at him in action. I finally tracked someone down who’d seen him play. He agreed on the Flowers comparison — similar size, both lefties — but said “Flowers is better around the basket — offensively and defensively — but Curry is better from the outside in.” And that was that. Summary? Intrigue follows Curry to town this summer.