Basically this means OSU's punishment will not come close to being as bad as USC's.
After all ESPN did to publicize everything about this, and try to make it look worse then it was, OSU will most likely not be hit with a post-season ban.
Being widely reported right now by NBA guys on twitter.
JJ Hickson for Omri Casspi and 2012 First round pick (lottery protected in 2012, top 10 protected in 2013, then it goes down for 2014)
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6722764