Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

The LSU women’s basketball national title defense has gotten off to a rocky start, with an early loss compounded by star Angel Reese being benched Tuesday and players’ mothers apparently feuding on Instagram.

Reese was benched during the second half of LSU’s 109-79 win over Kent State on Tuesday.

While LSU won the game by a large margin, the Tigers only led by two at halftime.

LSU coach Kim Mulkey explained (or in this case didn’t really explain) the benching as a “coach’s decision”.

OutKick’s Glenn Guilbeau, who has been covering LSU athletics for 20 years, reported Reese was benched for the purposes of an “attitude adjustment.” 

Reese had a profoundly busy offseason, ranging from a Sports Illustrated swimsuit spread to an appearance in a music video with Cardi B and Latto.

Meanwhile, Reese’s mother, Angel Reese Webb, and Flau’jae Johnson’s mother, Kia Brooks, seemed to go after each other on Instagram.

“Folks pls do not send me long text msgs with a bunch of grammatical errors it gives me a headache,” Webb wrote.

“How do I know you said what you said if I can’t understand what you’re saying?”

According to Just Women’s Sports, Brooks fired back: “You definitely know about grammar errors when your daughter got a 2.0 or less GPA. … Stop being petty, fake and hateful, and take responsibility for you and your daughter’s actions.”

Earlier this month, Mulkey was publicly critical of her team when they got trounced, 92-78, by then-No. 20 Colorado in their season opener.

“I’m disappointed and surprised in some individual players that I thought would just be tougher and have a little fight and leadership about them,” Mulkey said after the game.

“You live with poor shooting, you live with a tough night offensively,” she added.

“What I don’t live with is just guts and fight and physical play [not being there].

“I just didn’t think we had that tonight. This is not going to devastate us. Chicken Little said the sun will come out tomorrow, didn’t he?”

“Those things I described are fixable,” Mulkey continued.

“But I don’t know how long it’s going to take to fix it.”