Seventy-seven days is a long time in a college hoops season of about 130 days.

It was an especially long time for Yale women’s basketball coach Dalila Eshe, since that was the length of time between her team’s opening-night win over Monmouth in November and a victory on Monday at Dartmouth.

Yale (2-15, 1-3 Ivy) upset Dartmouth (8-9, 2-2) 70-67 behind 22 points from senior forward Grace Thybulle.

“Grace had an incredible game,” Eshe said.

Senior guard Mackenzie Egger led Yale (2-15, 1-3 Ivy) with nine rebounds.

“Mack (Egger) was her usual consistent self,” Eshe said.

Yale led by as many as 11 points and Dartmouth (8-9, 2-2) went on a last-stanza run to cut the Yale lead to 61-57 with 4:32 remaining, but Yale made key free throws to close out the game.

Dartmouth missed a game-tying three at the buzzer.

Yale held the Big Green to 3-for-19 shooting from long range and won the rebounding war, 36-21.

The Bulldogs takes on Harvard on the road Saturday at 2 p.m.

“Their (Harvard’s) press gives us a lot of trouble and they have some very dynamic scorers,” Eshe said.

Harvard defeated Yale 61-43 earlier this month at John J. Lee Amphitheater. Yale kept it close in the first half and outscored the Crimson 20-12 in the last period.

Dartmouth hosts Brown at 2 p.m. Saturday.