There’s no overlooking this one.

With Hawaii’s status as the Big West’s first-place team on the line — coupled with a rare matchup between brothers — the Rainbow Warriors are prepared to give their all today at Cal State Northridge, a program with little to play for save pride.

The Reggie Theus-led Matadors sit in sixth place in the conference but are ineligible for the 2016 postseason, including the Big West tournament; CSUN administration announced a self-imposed ban in January when an independent investigation of team academics revealed “serious violations.”

There’s also a perfect conference road record (4-0) to protect for UH (20-3, 9-1 BWC). There are four mainland contests to play among the Rainbows’ final six regular-season games.

After facing CSUN (9-16, 4-7), UH plays its biggest road game of the season — at second-place UC Irvine on Saturday.

“There’s always that (danger of looking ahead), that’s the human-nature challenge,” UH coach Eran Ganot said. “But this group has done a pretty good job in that regard. That’s why we’ve had the success we’ve had to this point. The challenge is, can you continue to do that as it gets harder, as there are more distractions?”

The final Big West team UH has yet to face this season plays in the intimate Matadome, a 2,400-seat facility that boasts a unique, shaded playing surface known as “the Blacktop.”

CSUN has sought to embrace the street-ball style evoked by the court and has tried to play up-and-down under the third-year coach Theus, a former Sacramento Kings star. The Matadors play a 10-man rotation and feature several potent perimeter scorers.

“We can’t completely play their game, but I think we do like to play some good up-tempo and score easy baskets,” said UH assistant John Montgomery.

UH should be a complete unit for the first time on the Big West road. Sixth man Isaac Fleming (11.2 ppg) is poised to make his return from a four-game absence due to a right ankle sprain.

“I feel good. My foot’s healed — still a little sore, nagging pains here and there,” Fleming said Tuesday. “But I can play through it. I just feel good to be back.”

The Rainbows flew into Los Angeles on Tuesday, but some bus trouble meant they got to their hotel late at night. They shook it off and practiced at the Matadome at noon on Wednesday.

UH won there for the first time in BWC play last year, 84-73, behind a team-high 15 points from Stefan Jankovic.

Jankovic presently averages 14.8 points and 6.5 rebounds for the highest-scoring team in the league at 78.8 a game.

“I think this team is a lot like we are in a lot of ways,” Theus said. “The advantage that Hawaii has, they have a 5 man that scores. In this conference, there are not many 5 men that score. From that position, it’s a matchup problem. Their team as a whole, we match up with them pretty well.”

Senior guard Quincy Smith will meet his younger brother, Kendall, as an opponent in a real game for the first time.

Since becoming eligible as a transfer from UNLV at the semester break, Kendall Smith has led the Matadors in scoring at 16.2 per game, while also running the show as the point guard the past 16 games.

“The competitiveness between the two is surely going to be off the charts,” Theus said, “and the only thing important in the end is who wins the game.”

It’s been a two-year self-described “battle” for Theus; CSUN held out a handful of players all of 2014-15 related to the same academic issues.

“I’ve been missing guys since I got here,” he said. “I haven’t played with a full roster yet. Right now I’m really happy, because I’ve got 10 guys, which is more than I’ve had since I’ve been here.”

He lauded his players for how they’ve handled the setbacks, saying “we’re looking forward to putting all that behind us.”

In his estimation, this team is deeper and more talented than the group he took to the Big West tournament title game (partially at UH’s expense) in 2014. CSUN is coming off a fast-paced 93-84 loss at Irvine in which it attempted 74 field goals.

Wing Micheal Warren (13.6 ppg) is the Matadors’ total points leader, and leads the BWC in free throws made. Guard Aaron Parks (11.5) has come on of late since returning from injury, and has some productive outings against UH at home — 19 and 21 points the last two years — to date.

Forward Tre Hale-Edmerson (8.8 ppg) will match Josh Greene as CSUN’s all-time leader in games played (125) if he takes the floor today. He’s already the Matadors’ all-time blocks leader and is sixth in rebounds and minutes. Starting center Olalekan Ajayi is a 6-foot-11 transfer from Eastern Michigan and averages 7.5 rebounds per game, second in the Big West.