#15 Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda Season 2025-26

Guard

Class Graduate

Height 6-2

Hometown Sioux Falls, S.D.

High School Washington High School

Major Psychology

Bio Stats

As a Junior – at Texas (2024-25)

Played in 37 games and started in 15 games in the 2024-2025 season
Scored a career-high 19 points against Illinois in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament
Posted in double-figures in eight games
Started in 15 of the final 18 games of the season for the Longhorns
Started for Texas in the Sweet 16, Elite 8
and Final Four in the 2025 NCAA Tournament after having back-to-back double-digit
scoring performances in the first two rounds
Averaged 9.0 points per game in the NCAA Tournament, shooting 59.3 percent from
the floor (16-of-27)
Collected first career double-double
with a 15-point, 11-rebound performance at Mississippi State on Feb. 27
SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll

Played in 31 games for the Longhorns
Averaged 4.4 points and 2.2 rebounds
Started against Rutgers at the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament and scored seven points in the win
Scored a season-high 16 points in a win over Houston Christian
Tallied 10 points and grabbed five rebounds on the road against Iowa State

Pronounced Jack-Uh-Lan-Guh, Mwen-In-Tawn-Duh
Ndjakalenga means “a gift of luck” from her mother’s Luba tribe in Congo
Appeared in 103 games with 18 starts over her three seasons at Texas
Averaged 4.6 points and 2.3 rebounds in 13.4 minutes per game during her time in Austin
Won three Big 12 titles (2 tournament, 1 regular season) and one SEC regular season title in three years at Texas
Played in 10 NCAA Tournament games, including one Final Four, two Elite 8s and two Sweet 16s
Named the 2022 Gatorade Player of the Year for the state of South Dakota
2022 Jordan Brand Classic participant
2022 McDonald’s All-American Nominee
Rated as the No. 34 overall prospect in the country and the No. 5 prospect at her position for the class of 2022 according to ESPN W/HoopGurlz rankings
Rated as the No.10 recruit in the class of 2022 by Bret McCormick’s All-Star Girls Report
Ranked No. 13 overall and No.4 in her position in Dan Olson’s Collegiate Girls Basketball Report
Averaged 19 points and 8 rebounds per game during her senior campaign at Washington High, and surpassed the 1,000 career point mark in her final game
Averaged 14.8 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game during her junior season in helping the Warriors capture a AA State Championship
Her mother, Muene Tshijuka, represented the Democratic Republic of Congo in basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and played at Old Dominion in 1998 before transferring to Nebraska Kearney in 2000