Henna Sandvik and Sharnecce Currie-Jelks are the latest IU women’s basketball player to enter the transfer portal, per reports on Wednesday.
This brings Indiana to five players in the portal since Tuesday morning. Sandvik and Currie-Jelks followed sophomore Jules LaMendola, junior Lexus Bargesser, and junior Lilly Meister. Both Sandvik and Currie-Jelks have one year of eligibility remaining, though Currie-Jelks could feasibly get a year back after playing in just three contests for IU in 2023-24 and just six games this year.
Sandvik never quite settled in with the Hoosiers during her three-year career. The Finland native played 6.7 minutes per game in both of her first two seasons, typically only entering at the end of assured victories. She saw a little more action this year as a junior, rising to 10.1 minutes per game. Sandvik had a couple nice moments, but she averaged 1.7 points and 1.3 rebounds per game and never became a reliable bench option for head coach Teri Moren.
Currie-Jelks transferred to Indiana ahead of the 2023-24 season from UT Martin, where she won OVC Freshman of the Year. But she missed nearly her entire first season in Bloomington while dealing with a personal matter — which The Daily Hoosier later learned was her pregnancy and maternity absence. She returned to action in time for this past season, as a junior, but she rarely saw the court. Freshman Faith Wiseman was evidently in front of Currie-Jelks in the frontcourt rotation, as Wiseman checked in for some important minutes for the Hoosiers in the Big Ten Tournament.
Indiana now has eight players on scholarship for 2025-26. The program is losing eight players, between the five portal entrants and graduating seniors Chloe Moore-McNeil, Sydney Parrish, and Karoline Striplin. Moren has a lot of work ahead to rebuild herroster.
