Aspiring agent Christian Dawkins and former Adidas employee Merl Code were found guilty of bribing college basketball assistant coaches to guide their players toward financial advisors and Dawkins’ sports management company.

But on the third day of deliberations, neither faced the full weight of their charges; Dawkins was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery, two of the six charges levied against him. And Code was 1-for-4, convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery.

“I never bribed anybody and there’s no evidence that I bribed anybody,” Code told SNYtv’s Adam Zagoria. “There was no emails, no text messages, no phone calls where I bribed anybody at any time.”

Dawkins’ attorney Steve Haney told Zagoria that he was “not displeased entirely with that outcome.”

“I mean they found him not guilty on four of the six charges.”

The two will be sentenced at a later date.

Dawkins and Code were each sentenced to six months in prison after they were found guilty in the first trial related to the FBI’s investigation into college basketball.

Of course, much of college basketball fans’ attention on the trial focused not on whether Dawkins or Code bribed assistant coaches to their own purposes, but on what was said — either on the wiretap or in given testimony — about coaches or universities paying players to attend their schools. And while none of that seemed to truly affect anything related to the case — why forecasted attempts to get Arizona coach Sean Miller or LSU coach Will Wade on the stand never came to pass — mentions of Arizona allegedly paying DeAndre Ayton, LSU Nazreon Reid or discussions of alleged packages for former top recruits Marvin Bagley III and Zion Williamson dominated the headlines.

Ultimately though, the FBI’s look into corruption into college basketball, which first focused on Dawkins, Code and Adidas executive James Gatto, was never aimed at determining who may or may not have broken NCAA rules. And that creates an interesting Phase 2: The NCAA’s ruling on Kansas forward Silvio De Sousa was based in large part on what was said in court, with the organization handing down a two-year suspension on the previously eligible Jayhawk. De Sousa and Kansas have since filed an appeal, though De Sousa did already miss the entirety of the 2018-19 season.

The NCAA will almost certainly be looking into some of the claims made at trial, as the organization did after the first trial, which ended with Gatto getting nine months in prison after all three were found guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

While delivering those sentences, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said he wanted to send a “great big warning light to the college basketball world.”

And Deputy U.S. Attorney Robert S. Khuzami said in a statement that, "The sentences imposed today only begin to reflect the magnitude of the harm these defendants caused through a scheme that not only defrauded multiple public universities but upended the lives of young student-athletes and corrupted a game cherished by so many.”