Thought this may be helpful to some.
It seems that Pro will not select a single hollow (no fill color) polygon by selecting in the interior of the polygon. It will select multiple polygons if you run the selection tool over a boundary.
Selection works fine with filled polygons.
That is a 'bug' and should be reported if that is the case, since it will affect the results of manual selections
What release of ArcGIS Pro are you using? I'm running 1.3.1 and can select a hollow fill polygon with the select tool clicking in the middle of the polygon.
10.3.1 here. Had a good conversation with support and understand what
happened. Will forward our discussion when I get home. Thanks for your
help!!