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KTOCAM match shirt, made by GladiaSport, the Caluire-et-Cuire workshop ten minutes from campus, with the brand's gladiator helmet in wine red across the chest and the four-school crest over the heart. Broad hoops, black V-neck, the 24 on the back with the logo repeated in miniature inside the digits. It belonged to no one in particular: the shirts were kept by the team managers and handed out in the changing room before each match, in the old amateur rugby way, the number belonging to whoever wore it that afternoon.

The season remains unconfirmed, somewhere in the 2010s, in the university championships of the Lyon academy. A shirt that went over many backs and carried no name, exactly as school sport intends.

Here at Hoopster, this is the shirt that cost three euros and was worth the whole story of a team named after a campus nickname.