The conviction of two former Vanderbilt University football players for gang raping a passed-out woman has sent signals across the nation that being extremely drunk does not count as a defense.

Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg faces many years behind bars for their act, even though they were first-time offenders, and two more defendants who allegedly joined Batey and Vandenburg in raping the woman — Jaborian McKenzie and Brandon Banks — could face a similar fate, according to an Associated Press report.

They cooperated with authorities, which could reduce their sentence, but now that their teammates have been convicted, their future becomes more grim.

Experts and sex crimes survivors advocates hailed the verdict, hoping it sends a signal to the woman who keep silent abou what they went through that they could experience justice without facing retribution.

College sex assaults are frequent and often don’t result in arrest, with a recent Justice Department report study finding that 80 percent of campus rapes never even got reported between 1995 and 2013, a rate that is worse than the 67 percent for the genral population.

The victim of the Vanderbilt assault said she hopes her experience will encourage other women to speak out about their own experiences in order to fight back against rape.

In a statement read by prosecutors, she said that victims of sexual violence “are not alone” and “are not to blame.”

The Vanderbilt case was a slam dunk for prosecutors after university surveillance caught them dragging the woman into a room in June of 2013 and the players recorded the attack on their phones, laughing and encouraging others to participate in the attack. Vandenburg even passed out condoms to those who assaulted the woman.

All four players were charged with rape although not all had taken part in actually engaging in sex with the woman, another strong message that suggests that simply encouraging and enabling the behavior is just as bad as raping a woman personally.