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Missouri State basketball beats George Washington in third-place game at Naples Invitational

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In 1789, George Washington proclaimed that Thanksgiving would be a day to give thanks and bring people together.

What our nation's first president probably didn't see coming when he made that proclamation was that a school would eventually be named after him and that it'd have a basketball team that would play in early-season tournaments surrounding the holiday.

On the eve of Thanksgiving, 232 years after Washington's proclamation, the Colonials fell to Missouri State in the Naples Invitational.

Missouri State (4-2) rebounded from a semifinal loss at the Naples Invitational with a 72-54 win over George Washington (2-6) on Wednesday evening.