If Long Beach State’s Pyramid is a house of horrors for Hawaii, then the Matadome of Cal State Northridge is more like a funhouse.

The Rainbow Warriors seek to set aside the disappointment of Thursday’s 89-81 setback at LBSU — a place they’ve yet to win as a Big West member — and salvage a split of their road trip at CSUN, a much more hospitable locale in recent years.

UH (9-5, 0-1 BWC) owns a six-game winning streak against struggling CSUN (3-11, 0-0), including three in a row at the 1,600-seat Matadome, a glorified gymnasium featuring a “blacktop”-style court.

Also working in UH’s favor: It is 4-0 coming off a loss this season, winning the next game by an average margin of 13.8 points. However, well-rested CSUN won its past two nonconference games, and had a bye on Thursday in opening its BWC slate tonight.

The Matadors haven’t beaten the ’Bows since the 2014 Big West tournament first round, Gib Arnold’s final game as UH coach. CSUN’s fifth-year coach Reggie Theus chalked up his team’s problems against UH — which leads the all-time series 14-4 — to a disparity in talent.

“Well, over the last few years, they’ve had one or two guys who were really good,” Theus said in a phone interview, chuckling. “So, that in itself is a problem. I mean, you go back to my first year, where they had, I think, (Isaac) Fotu and … (Christian) Standhardinger. Every year, they’ve had two or three guys (who went on) to make money someplace. And that’s key. Talent is still the most important thing.”

That seemed to be UH’s problem at LBSU. The 49ers, even without injured second-leading scorer Bryan Alberts, became the first opponent to shoot 60 percent or better against the ’Bows under Eran Ganot. It was the most efficient shooting performance by any team against UH in five-plus years of Big West play.

Experienced LBSU exploited its mismatch inside to score 50 points in the paint, overcoming a 1-for-10 effort from long range. UH allowed wing Barry Ogalue, usually a role player, to shoot 9-for-10 to tie his career high of 21 points.

In contrast, the Matadors are exceptionally young, with six freshmen and three sophomores.

CSUN may have struggled mightily for nearly all of nonconference play — it endured an 11-game losing streak for much of November and December — but Theus still has some talented pieces.

Senior forward Tavrion Dawson (16.1 ppg, 5.9 rpg) is the reigning BWC player of the week. Guard Micheal Warren, at 6-5, shoots efficiently and actually leads the team in rebounding (6.4). Terrell Gomez, a 5-foot-8 frosh, replaced Kendall Smith at point guard after Smith took a graduate transfer to Oklahoma State, and is learning on the fly (3.1 apg).

Ganot noted CSUN got off to a 3-0 Big West start last season after similar nonconference struggles.

“As we know, it’s a different animal once you get to conference play and you have a guy like Tavrion Dawson, who’s an all-conference (honorable mention) player coming back, and a guy like Micheal Warren, who’s really played well,” he said. “The combination of those guys and now their young guys getting some experience, it’ll be a tough battle.”

The 3-ball has worked for UH in the past two contests; it hit 13 in the nonconference finale against Howard, followed by 11 at the Pyramid. Before that, it was averaging just six hits a game from outside.

Point guard Brocke Stepteau, inserted into the starting lineup the past two games alongside Drew Buggs, scored a career-high 19 points at LBSU. The 5-foot-9 junior is third among all BWC players in field-goal percentage (.600) as well as 3-point percentage (.500).

While Stepteau has mostly flourished, the player he replaced in the starting lineup, sophomore Leland Green, has struggled. Green is 1-for-15 from the field the past three games and has seen his shooting percentage dip to .346 this season.

UH’s third starting guard, Sheriff Drammeh, has claimed the team scoring lead at 12.0.