Curry Kirkpatrick, ESPN The Magazine's college hoops king, takes you to the epicenter of the sport's best rivalry.

The scene is 40 Below, a neighborhood barber shop and chill-out to the stars -- in this case the combatants in the annual revenge war between Duke and North Carolina. Producer Andy Tennant has Scorsese-ed his ESPN cameras everywhere, taping a piece for the Sunday morning SportsCenter, and the customers parade in: Tar Heels Joe Forte and Adam Boone; Dookies Jason Williams and transfer Dahntay Jones; more Heels, Brendan Haywood and Jason Capel.

Think this is a rivalry of global scope? You should get a load of the thing inside 40 Below, where the friendly confines turn ugly at the drop of a dis. Or the delivery of an antique barber chair all upholstered in -- you guessed it -- Carolina baby blue. Just listen:

Barber Len Lilly: "Jason can't get close to this here chair. It's like kryptonite to him. He start backin' up."

Williams: "Stop it, dawg. Let it go. Let it go. I wouldn't want to sit in that thing!"

Lilly: "Dean should sit here ... Michael ... Vince Carter."

Barber Teddy McKoy: "That's the retirement chair. Sit all them Tar Heels in there. Haywood, you too."

Lilly: "Hey, Joe Sprewell, better known as Joe Forte! Two hard drives to the left, one right. Ask [Duke's] Nate James. He know."

Customer Darrin McKellar: "Nate James is Gar-bage. GAR-BAGE! GAR-BAGE!"

McKoy: "Boone! Hey Boone! You can't shoot like that. Hit the rim, go the other side? Do me a favor. Tell Doherty to put you in early!"

Forte: "I come in here after the Duke game last time. You cryin' like a baby. Cryin' like a baby!

McKoy: "We'll see who's cryin' Sunday. Your boy, [Ronald] Curry, get hurt ... you can start the car, Forte. Hey, Haywood! You gettin' six! You better be prayin' Boozer stay hurt!"

Haywood: "Lookee here. I got Boozer in my pocket. Only let him out on weekends!"

Lilly: "Dahntay Jones! You touched the chair! You just cost your team five points touchin' the chair!"

ESPN Reporter (Me): "Does Battier ever come in here?"

McKellar: "What, are you kidding? That clown come in here?"

Customer Bobby Farrow: "Battier here? Naww. We ain't got no library in here."

Williams: "You hate me, dawg! You hate me!"

McKellar: "I still love you. But you should have gone to Carolina!"

And Outside World thought the Cameron Crazies were a tough crowd.

Watch Curry Kirkpatrick's segment from 40 Below on SportsCenter, Sunday morning. E-mail him at curry.kirkpatrick@espnmag.com.